[Teflonic]

If interested, here's the pdf link to the full paper.

[theDentist]

You can be sure al-Qaeda is reading up on it.

[Dracian]

It's is just spread-spectrum applied to optical.

[beezdotcom]

Somewhere, somehow, this innovation will tie back to porn...it often seems to...

[econjack]

Given the way message packets are transmitted over the Net today, I would guess it will be a while before this technology is universally applicable.

[taxcontrol]

First paragraph of the paper says:


".... if appropriate filters are used"

In short, only works in the lab. No real world application unless you 1) have physical access to both ends of the fiber or 2) can control the equipment between the two end points.

All it would take to kill this would be ONE optical filter designed to block the "noise". It would also be interesting to see how resilient this is to chromatic dispersion.

[Izzy Dunne]

This is old stuff. For instance, properly trained observers can detect the tower in this picture:

[Spktyr]

Somewhere there is an NSA tech rolling on the floor laughing as he sits in his cube monitoring the seventh generation version of this hardware....

[nevergiveup]

YAWWWWWN!

I built an equivalent system 20 years ago that used LEDs. I demonstrated it to several appropropriate potential customers but for a variety of reasons (some valid), it never got past the "interesting but..." stage.

[ASA Vet]

Interesting discussion
by folks wishing they were able to do this.
of one secret writing method.
Reading between the lines in white doesn't add a bit of protection from us though.

[Alia]

=Marking article=