Code name "Killer Rabbit": New Sub Can Tap Undersea Cables

[Tyler Durden]

>DWDM certainly makes it more complicated.  Of course, that same
>technology allows them to send much more back. (Regarding the single
>OC-3 mentioned previously.)

Well, DISTANCE makes it more complicated first of all. You need undersea 
repeaters and/or OFAs in order to get traffic from most parts of the ocean 
back to land, and the NSA will in many cases not want nor be able to use the 
"host" service providers' OFAs. This would mean they'd have to install their 
own, and I doubt they're going to just plop on their own regeneration site 
on the outside of a civilian cable.

Hum. In some parts of the ocean they must almost certainly have their own 
cable and then couple stolen traffic into it. I'd bet there also must exist 
some mini-Echelons on some Islands somewhere (like Majorca or the Azores) 
where they do some grooming and listening.

-TD