Comment by mapgrep
12 years ago
The likelihood miles and miles of cabling, much of it presumably leased, will be compromised is nowhere near comparable to the likelihood a normal, single-location office/home ethernet LAN will be compromised. (And if you think both are easily compromised, that only adds to my original point.)
"much of it presumably leased,"
This is a very interesting assumption
http://www.howstuffworks.com/tech-myths/5-myths-about-google...
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=633236
Fiber optic links are not so easily compromised. Not without service interruption, which will raise quite a few eyebrows.
The US has submarines which are entirely designed to splice fiber optics without interruption.
They literally bring part of the cable into the sub and work on it from there.
Citation for that? Seems plausible but I'm interested in any details.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_tapping
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/undersea-cable-surveillance...
Fwiw Micheal Crighton wrote about this ("piggyback slurp") in Congo:
http://goo.gl/KSf78p