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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, Interesting) by Theophrastus on Friday September 19 2014, @08:16PM
please consider modding-up one-up. that's a very sensible approach.
yet i have a nerdy wonder about a less sensible approach (reminding me of an *old* Howard Hughes submarine recovery scheme). design a tethered robot submarine/RMV which has a clam-shell maw to grip the cable in a pressurizable cuff. RMV also has a standard docking ring. so:
(1) glomp.
(2) dock with submarine
(3) cozy dry access to cable
(4) signal your land operative to create a diversion (blow-up a transformer on a sub-station which powers the cable)
(5) quickly apply optical taps
(6) waterproof
(7) release
(8) it's miller-time
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday September 19 2014, @10:09PM
You forgot:
(9) Profit!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek