GCHQ(NSA) tap fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

[snooper2]

41. "narus like" equipment?

ridiculous-

You know how many fiber routes we have coming out of one central office?

If you want to tap a voice call, there are LI (lawful intercept) functionality built into class 5 voice switches (TDM or VoIP). Since I happen to be one of the folks who approves who has access, at least within our network, trust me no "NSA analyst" can get in-
Shit, I can't even get into the CLI with my VPN client at home, have to be on our internal network. That's why we contract with a third party for CALEA support. We send them the data for a valid warrant and They in turn send it to LEA.

Also, there are limitations to the number of subscribers you can have a tap on at any moment in time. It's not like I can shit extra 10G interfaces on the servers that are handling production traffic and "duplicate" everything back to the federal government. That would be absolutely ridiculous and the sheer volume of data would make it useless. Plus networks are designed to duplicate the load they have just so we can send everything to the feds. I don't think you understand network topologies. You think the NSA went and put a mirror port on every router in the country? And before you say (it's in the Core), what about traffic that stays on the edge routers and has a single hop back out to another endpoint?



Who is your provider and what is this court case you are talking about?


I expect that on some oceanic routes the NSA are tapping information. Like, why is there a sudden increase in data and "traffic" from Sudan to BFE Montana? I also suspect that some foreign entities inside the U.S. are being tapped. I also suspect they are smart enough to do things like, oh, ICMP traffic, lets just throw that away