On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
Was the unplanned L3 DF maintenance that took place on Tuesday a frantic removal of taps? :-)
No need for intrusive techniques such as direct taps: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=1494884 "Of all the techniques, the bent fiber tap is the most easily deployed with minimal risk of damage or detection. The paper quantifies the bend loss required to tap a signal propagating in a single mode fiber" Matt
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jacque O'Lantern < jacque.olantern@yandex.com> wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-...
--- brandon.galbraith@gmail.com wrote: From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Google is speeding up its initiative to encrypt all DC to DC traffic, as this was suspected a short time ago.
http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallout-google-speeds...
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This goes back to our conversation last June:
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/thread.html#59352
now $189K may not seem as 'big'! ;-)
(http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/059371.html)
scott
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