On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > No-Such-Agency typically taps communication lines by > "back-hoe accident" of some sort on the path they are > interested in tapping. Then again, maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight.
I'm gonna go with "too tight." My main reason is that there's no need for our three-lettered friends to risk themselves this way. It's far easier to invite specific highly-placed employees of the communications company for a series of meetings in a secure facility, after which the cable is rerouted through an access-controlled room at one of its endpoints. No muss, no fuss. Then too, if they really do have to tap a cable, it's not like they have to break it first. Dig it up mid-span, quietly let out slack from the nearest vaults and nick the cladding on each fiber. Your link gains half a db of loss (which you aren't actively monitoring anyway) and their tap reads your data. http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln/tap-fiber.html Also, I think it more likely this is one of the angry anti-tech folks in SF. Have you not heard about the tension between old-school residents and the new tech workers who are driving up prices for everything and basically driving everybody else out of town? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bus_protests Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
