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In-Reply-To: <4A252007.4070809@senokian.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:12:51 -0500 From: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com> To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Dave Wilson <richard.wilson@senokian.com> wrote: > No. And here's why: If you're a naughty foreign intelligence team, and > you know your stuff, you already know where some of the cables you'd > really like a tap on are buried. When you hear of a construction project > that might damage one, you set up your innocuous white panel truck > somewhere else, near a suitable manhole. When the construction guy with > a backhoe chops the cable (and you may well slip him some money to do > so), *then* you put your tap in, elsewhere, with your actions covered by > the downtime at the construction site. That's why the guys in the SUVs > are in such a hurry, because they want to close the window of time in > which someone can be tapping the cable elsewhere. Sounds like a lot of work to me. Wouldn't it be easier to just find the carrier neutral colo facilities where all the peering/transit between major networks happens, and pay them money to put up a fake wall that you can colo your optical taps behind? Drive Slow, and remember, don't open any doors that say "This Is Not An Exit", Paul Wall
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