FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps

Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by tinfoilman on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:17AM (#9817482)

Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.

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Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by jlgaddis on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:09AM (#9817658)

They probably get half of the strands, to mirror all the data passing through the other half.

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Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by tmwh91 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:10AM (#9818568)

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.

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Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by visarga on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:36AM (#9823711)

or Youtube streams...

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Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by chinathrow on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:14AM (#9817681)

That were my thoughts before, or at least how I'd do it:

- seal deals to get x strands

- tap it while still unlit

- mirror what you need and exfiltrate directly over your own private strands

- profit

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Re:FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak... by higherpurpose on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:08AM (#9817656)

Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...

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