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NSA/U.S. Navy Working to Intercept Fiber Optic Cables

Posted by timothy on from the deep-blue-blinkenlights dept.

Jeff Robertson writes: "Fiber optic cables have advantage of being difficult to wiretap. As optical amplifiers replace electro-optical regenerators in undersea routes, it gets even harder. Lightwave Magazine has an article quoting the Washington Post as claiming the National Security Agency 'is known to be hard at work trying to gain access to fiber optic cables' and the U.S. Navy will spend '$1 billion to retrofit its premier spy submarine, the USS Jimmy Carter' to get access to deep-sea fiber routes. They also assert that the U.S. government is bailing out Global Crossing to prevent its undersea routes falling into foreign hands."

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  1. goddamn govt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    this is a first pissed off pissed off post. this blows donkey ballz

  2. Re:rofl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think you mean the former President Bill Clinton. Of course, the alternative would have been Al Gore who was an esteemed combat photo-journalist! rotfl! Senator McCain should have been the fucking President. We would have the same problems with the towel-heads and gooks fucking around with us.

  3. Re:Bail Out Global Crossing by TweeKinDaBahx · · Score: 0, Troll

    ROFLMAO!

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  4. Re:The call of powerful empires by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't forget the rallying cry of militant extremists and terrorists everywhere:

    "Islam is peace"

    heh.