How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans

Re:How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans by visarga on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @02:47AM (#5982872)

The cable operators need to encrypt all traffic going through the fibers - problem solved. In fact what goes through the backbone should be encrypted many times over - by the backbone operator, by the company leasing the backbone bandwidth and by the end user.

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Re:How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans by zimbatm on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:15AM (#5983124)

Technologically I was in the impression that the end-points where barely able to route the traffic that's going trough these cables. Encrypting the traffic in real-time might not be possible.

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Re:How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans by phire on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:00PM (#5985885)

Not possible in software, but you can do it in hardware.

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Re:How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans by davenull on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:34AM (#5983002)

The massive amount of computing power needed to encrypt that much data is hard to buy, unless you are the NSA.

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