Charles Wyble wrote:
I do feel this might be the last post from Mr Pooser. :)
Your on to them it seems. ;)
A very interesting idea. I imagine it wouldn't be hard for foreign actors to get access to the data feed of construction, observe for signs of a cut and then splice in a tap.
Though wouldn't that tap be found via the real response team?
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. At least that's what I heard. I read it somewhere on the internet. Definitely. Not at all a sneaky person. No sir. Dave W At least I'm in Britain. *Slightly* harder for the NSA to make me disappear ;-)