Tapping fiber optic cables without detection
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
Tapping a fiber-optic cable without being detected, and making sense of the information you collect, isn’t trivial but has certainly been done by intelligence agencies for the past seven or eight years. Companies can spend a lot of money on security for their networks but it all may be for naught if they forget about the physical threat of an optical tap. I would guess that most companies have some cable in a semi-public area where a tap could be placed for a long time without the fear of discovery. And backbone diagrams for entire cities are not that hard to find.
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