On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Dave Wilson <richard.wilson@senokian.com> wrote:
No. And here's why: If you're a naughty foreign intelligence team, and you know your stuff, you already know where some of the cables you'd really like a tap on are buried. When you hear of a construction project that might damage one, you set up your innocuous white panel truck somewhere else, near a suitable manhole. When the construction guy with a backhoe chops the cable (and you may well slip him some money to do so), *then* you put your tap in, elsewhere, with your actions covered by the downtime at the construction site. That's why the guys in the SUVs are in such a hurry, because they want to close the window of time in which someone can be tapping the cable elsewhere.
Sounds like a lot of work to me. Wouldn't it be easier to just find the carrier neutral colo facilities where all the peering/transit between major networks happens, and pay them money to put up a fake wall that you can colo your optical taps behind? Drive Slow, and remember, don't open any doors that say "This Is Not An Exit", Paul Wall