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Re: NSA tapping undersea fibers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Sun Jun 3 13:54:02 2001
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 09:38:49 -0700
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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At 02:23 AM 6/2/01 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>seabed. Cable sinks, deliberately, and thus has weight. depends of course on
>the elasticity of the whole cable, but as the fibres are made of glass...
>
>e) fiber optic cables can't take that much stress (or even that much strain)
>and function properly
>
The glass is an insignificant part of the cable. See Stephenson's story
in an old Wired for more on cable construction and placement.
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