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Re:FBI investigating vandalism of fiberoptic cables at Liver... by skolor on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:32AM (#9817027)
Why wouldn't they just drop their equipment and leave? Cutting cables causes a noticeable outage and requires people to physically visit the point of modification, which ruins the covert potential for such equipment.
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Re:FBI investigating vandalism of fiberoptic cables at Liver... by codezero on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:39AM (#9817045)
Possibly there's no way to install the equipment in a way that won't interrupt service.

Also, such an approach would give the fiber company plausible deniability if they were ever called out for supporting NSA data collection.

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Re:FBI investigating vandalism of fiberoptic cables at Liver... by 2close4comfort on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:43AM (#9818425)
unless you your install is downstream of the cut and action of the cable cutting is both to interrupt service and to cause a distraction...
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