latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo DC-to-DC traffic

Fri Nov 1 00:24:11 UTC 2013

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Ray Soucy <rps at maine.edu> wrote:

> Was the unplanned L3 DF maintenance that took place on Tuesday a frantic
> removal of taps? :-)
>

No need for intrusive techniques such as direct taps:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=1494884

"Of all the techniques, the bent fiber tap is the most easily deployed with
minimal
risk of damage or detection. The paper quantifies the bend loss required to
tap a
signal propagating in a single mode fiber"

Matt

>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jacque O'Lantern <
> > jacque.olantern at yandex.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
> >
> >
> > --- brandon.galbraith at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith at gmail.com>
> >
> > Google is speeding up its initiative to encrypt all DC to DC traffic, as
> > this was suspected a short time ago.
> >
> >
> http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallout-google-speeds-data-encryptio/240161070
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > This goes back to our conversation last June:
> >
> > http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/thread.html#59352
> >
> > now $189K may not seem as 'big'!  ;-)
> >
> > (http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/059371.html)
> >
> >
> > scott
> >
> >
>
>
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