It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.
Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak...
by tmwh91 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:10AM
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You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.
Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak...
by harywilke on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:38AM
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cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.
- seal deals to get x strands
- tap it while still unlit
- mirror what you need and exfiltrate directly over your own private strands
- profit
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...
Apparently the landings sites for this cable are Chikura and Shima, Japan and Bandon, Oregon. Looks like Bandon has some pretty coastline.
Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p