[114987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Tue Jun 2 11:19:30 2009
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:19:17 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A253AD8.8020209@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, JC Dill wrote:
>>> Why do they "watch" and "monitor" rather than proactively go out and say
>>> "watch out, there's an unmarked cable here" and keep them from cutting the
>>> cable in the first place?
Because if they DON'T hit the line, it is still a secret.
Then again, if they DO hit the line, it's pretty obvious what the line is
for and at least one place it runs. I wonder if the Gov't schedules a
move of the line once it's operational security is comprimised by an
accidental cut.
Beckman
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