Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Tue Jun 25 14:23:43 UTC 2013


On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> Which made me immediately realize it would be far simpler to strong arm the cable operators to split off all channels before connecting them to the customer.  

It's potentially a lot simpler than that:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells>

<http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/>

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