[164088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jun 25 10:27:00 2013
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:23:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D3137436-381F-492E-B67D-C205FE7B9114@ufp.org>
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On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Which made me immediately realize it would be far simpler to strong arm t=
he cable operators to split off all channels before connecting them to the =
customer. =20
It's potentially a lot simpler than that:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells>
<http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/>
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