Comment by paulryanrogers
4 days ago
Is it the powerful servers making the difference here? Or the coveted back haul connections which have access to the data passing by?
I suppose it's both but the latter is a more scarce resource
4 days ago
Is it the powerful servers making the difference here? Or the coveted back haul connections which have access to the data passing by?
I suppose it's both but the latter is a more scarce resource
It used to be that they needed to dedicate entire rooms for interception hardware, and tighter maintenance schedules. Nowadays, the devices they use are tiny in comparison, way easier to hide. I've encountered infrastructure companies discovering hardware that doesn't belong to them, in their local infrastructure, and when detected and reported, law enforcement came to pick it up, and refused to talk about it. That case still hasn't had a resolution, and it's about 4 years ago now.
> and when detected and reported, law enforcement came to pick it up, and refused to talk about it.
By "law enforcement", I'd assume the feds and not local. Why not just say which agency? Wouldn't this pretty much be FBI? Why use such a generic term?
Because it wasn't in the US, and the specifics don't really matter. All countries I've lived in so far has had similar capabilities for sure, and practiced them too.
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what an incredibly USAmerican-centric comment.
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be afraid of that random raspberry pi device dangling off the switch.
just kidding, it's just backup access via the datacenter wifi.
for everyone
> That case still hasn't had a resolution, and it's about 4 years ago now.
Sure it has!
The resolution was “go fuck yourself, what the fuck are you going to do about it?”.
Y’know: respectfully.
It's the servers specifically the parallelization with more cores and better math functions like AVX512.