[115002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Holstein)
Tue Jun 2 15:55:10 2009
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:53:07 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A258056.4060804@thewybles.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Granted the US govt has there own (classified) encryption algorithms
> and as such that can't be replicated in a lab environment and requires
> access to the physical medium carrying traffic encrypted by said
> algorithms.
Which is why they do things like this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
Of course these days, it doesn't require nearly as much effort .. just a
friendly phone call to AT&T (who, ironically, also built the devices
used in the above).
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
