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I'm reminded of an excellent book detailing the US's own interference with Russian cables 30 years back: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
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You're just backing up his point about Russia.
Man: Is that my wallet in your hand? Thief: No sir. You're paranoid. Man: That is my wallet. I can see my ID! Thief: See, I told you that you were paranoid.
Sane Man: No sir. That's my mobile phone.
Man: That is my wallet. I can see my ID!
Sane Man: You need help.
I believe that until recently neither Azure or AWS had a datacenter in the UK. Cutting undersea cables between the UK and the US / Europe / Ireland could have some serious consequences in the UK, at the very least on the economy, possibly on its infrastructure (payment systems, communications, etc). But aren't terrestrial cables more vulnerables than undersea cables? Cutting undersea cables require sophisticated tech…
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My favorite part was that the Russians detected our undersea tap, found it, and put it in a Moscow museum complete with the stamp "Property of United States Government."
That's indicative of the stark cultural contrast between USA and Russia, indeed: https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/01/23/vladimir-putin-robert-kraf...
Which is not to applaud theft, but rather to highlight the unsympathetic qualities of the victim.
If only the Internet was resistant to losing connections. I guess all we can do is give these guys more money to defend us from the big bad bear with a military that is a tiny fraction of ours.
if you lose significant capacity (or all capacity) simultaneously you can't fall back to the "internet is resilient" routine. you're straight up screwed.
Anyone know the specifics of how you actually intercept data on a fibre optic cable?
Anyone know the specifics of how you actually intercept data on a fibre optic cable?
The real problem is them cutting or blowing up these cables.
if you can tap on petabytes/s of data with your probe, how can you move that data for analysis or how can you decrypt it in real time in case you only want to retransmit portions of it?
Given that it's 2017 and a huge fraction of the traffic is HTTPS anyway, is there any practical benefit to this?