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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by ctack on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:12AM (#20864272)
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.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by reaperducer on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:12AM (#20867253)
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.

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by saganus on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:00PM (#20870562)
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.

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