On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
No-Such-Agency typically taps communication lines by "back-hoe accident" of some sort on the path they are interested in tapping. Then again, maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight.
I'm gonna go with "too tight." My main reason is that there's no need for our three-lettered friends to risk themselves this way. It's far easier to invite specific highly-placed employees of the communications company for a series of meetings in a secure facility, after which the cable is rerouted through an access-controlled room at one of its endpoints. No muss, no fuss. Then too, if they really do have to tap a cable, it's not like they have to break it first. Dig it up mid-span, quietly let out slack from the nearest vaults and nick the cladding on each fiber. Your link gains half a db of loss (which you aren't actively monitoring anyway) and their tap reads your data. http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln/tap-fiber.html Also, I think it more likely this is one of the angry anti-tech folks in SF. Have you not heard about the tension between old-school residents and the new tech workers who are driving up prices for everything and basically driving everybody else out of town? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bus_protests Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>