Comment by chiph
12 years ago
you probably shouldn't trust your leased fiber with unencrypted data.
Or even your own fiber (Google owns tens of thousands of miles of it). There's nothing to prevent the black-hat guys from digging down to a cable in the middle of nowhere and installing an optical tap. Especially if they did it before commissioning, after which signal levels would start being monitored.
>Google owns tens of thousands of miles of it
If this haven't already I imagine they will be hiring security forces to patrol and inspect.
Even still, field techs, in lonely outposts, are easier targets than tech that are part of an onsite team.