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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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