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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by matharmin on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:56AM (#20864017)
I strongly doubt they spliced the cables. From the article it sounds like they got a court order (probably unconstitutional), allowing them to intercept the data. So they probably just needed to install a couple of big servers at the landing sites.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by pinkfoot on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:30AM (#20867502)
You don't splice cables, you split the light with a prism and siphon of 10% of the light. All of it.

Every telco has locked rooms full of kit for this job.

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