Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
by ctack on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:12AM
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You can't export the data wholesale from your ship though - you'd need another cable for that :D So you'd need sift and process that data on the ship.
Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
by reaperducer on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:12AM
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You can't export the data wholesale from your ship though - you'd need another cable for that :D
The key word, though, was "uplink." Go straight to satellite, and let the intelligence agencies sift through what they want.
Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
by saganus on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:00PM
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Are there sat links with enough bandwidth to siphon data off undersea cables?
I have no knowledge of this area but I always thought sat links can't compete with multi gbps cables.
Maybe I'm wrong though.
Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
by IggleSniggle on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:59PM
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The return of Privateers (independent naval vessels commissioned to engage in hostile acts against enemy states, often in murky legal territory, and often blamed for the rise of piracy (successful privateering companies, when war was over, would be primed to simply become pirates))
Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
by toomanybeersies on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:59PM
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That's great until another country declares you a hostile non-state actor and starts sinking your ships.
It's not easy to tap submarine fibre optic cables. The US Navy has a Nuclear Sub dedicated to the task. You can't just pick them up and stick a tap in them.
The company taking the risk gets a big fat government check every month, and the governments get to deny they're tapping anyone's data.