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from the unless-they-were-'accidentally'-broken dept.
The Register has found itself subject to a certain amount of criticism for this author's skepticism ( Richard Chirgwin http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/2242 ) regarding whether the NSA has been snooping on optical fibre cables by cutting them.
Glenn Greenwald's recent “NSA cut New Zealand's cables” story is illustrative of credibility problems that surround the ongoing Edward Snowden leak stories: everybody is too willing to accept that “if it's classified, it must be because it's true”, and along the way, attribute super-powers to spy agencies.
In running the line that undersea cables were cut, Greenwald is straying far enough from what's feasible and credible that his judgement on other claims needs to be questioned. It seems to The Register almost certain that neither Glenn Greenwald nor Edward Snowden have actually held a submarine fibre cable in their hands.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/18/spies_arent_superheroes/
Do you think that it is credible that these undersea fibre cables were tapped when it is easier to tap onshore installations?
(Score: 4, Funny) by SlimmPickens on Friday September 19 2014, @08:10PM
I read somewhere, don't remember if was Greenwald's book or not that they get most of them by doing it before it's live.
It also says in Greenwald's book they got themselves in charge of some of the landing sites (STORMBREW IIRC).
Also, it might be hard to tap a live cable but not impossible. They fix them when ship anchors wreck them FFS. They've really just got to deal with power somehow and then do what they always do. Maybe they "organise" a ship anchor in order to deal with the power.
No imagination. It should be called de-register.