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To: pangenesis

You’d think the NSA would just tap in.


20 posted on 02/06/2008 8:18:46 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
You’d think the NSA would just tap in.

They used to tap into Soviet undersea cables. I doubt they've abandoned such practices altogether.

25 posted on 02/06/2008 8:21:05 AM PST by squidly
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To: Tijeras_Slim

People on Belmont Club are claiming that cutting a cable is a good mechanism for concealing a tap. Once repaired, new baseline measurements of its state would include the tap.


32 posted on 02/06/2008 8:23:20 AM PST by elfman2 ("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Tapping packet switched networks is a lot easier if you channel everything into one cable. Otherwise part of the message may be transmitted on one cable and the rest on another, requiring you to tap all the cables to be sure you can get anything.
35 posted on 02/06/2008 8:24:09 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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