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(Reuters) Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.
At a summit in Brussels, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the $185 million cable project was central to "guarantee the neutrality" of the Internet, signaling her desire to shield Brazil's Internet traffic from U.S. surveillance. According to other sources, the construction is scheduled to begin in July.
A joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain's IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ezber Bozmak on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:14PM
First you have to get the tap on there without anyone noticing, so basically before it is turned on or there will be an interruption to service.
That is incorrect. Surreptitious tapping only requires that the fibre be bent enough for some photons to escape. That will slightly reduce SNR, but it won't result in a loss of service.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/1863434/th e-growing-security-risk-fibre-tapping [computing.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:44PM
Right, but consider what you are proposing. Bend a strand of fibre. In an armoured, waterproof cable containing many strands. A cable designed to keep water out for 100+ years. And then repairing it so that it doesn't fail.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 1) by Ezber Bozmak on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:19AM
Given the enormous budget of the NSA, comparable in size to a top-50 corporation, [nsa.gov] I don't think that's so preposterous.