On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Ray Soucy <r...@maine.edu> wrote: > Was the unplanned L3 DF maintenance that took place on Tuesday a frantic > removal of taps? :-) >
No need for intrusive techniques such as direct taps: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=1494884 "Of all the techniques, the bent fiber tap is the most easily deployed with minimal risk of damage or detection. The paper quantifies the bend loss required to tap a signal propagating in a single mode fiber" Matt > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jacque O'Lantern < > > jacque.olant...@yandex.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html > > > > > > --- brandon.galbra...@gmail.com wrote: > > From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbra...@gmail.com> > > > > Google is speeding up its initiative to encrypt all DC to DC traffic, as > > this was suspected a short time ago. > > > > > http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallout-google-speeds-data-encryptio/240161070 > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > This goes back to our conversation last June: > > > > http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/thread.html#59352 > > > > now $189K may not seem as 'big'! ;-) > > > > (http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/059371.html) > > > > > > scott > > > > > > > -- > Ray Patrick Soucy > Network Engineer > University of Maine System > > T: 207-561-3526 > F: 207-561-3531 > > MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network > www.maineren.net > >
