Re: NSA enhancing Linux security?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:08:27 +0000 (UTC)

Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> writes:

]> Whew...
]>
]> That is one serious "conspiracy theory" rant...

]Umm...

]Let me throw out this example. I think this was mentioned in an IEEE
]publication some time in the last two years: the NSA is able to intercept
]data flowing through fiber optic cable burried underneath the ocean. How?
]Apparently they have submarines carrying computer labs. They are able to
]pick up EM fields emitted at optocoupled (electrical) repeaters.

]From the bottom of the friggin' ocean!

Ohh. sounds like a great way for the Russians to disable to US submarine
fleet-- lay underseas cables and incapacitate one submarine for each, as
it has to sit within a few feet of the repeaters.

Sheesh.

]I would not be surprised if they have the means to break modern crypto
]ciphers with key sizes that everyone else thinks is "good enough".

Except your level of surprise carries no weight with anyone else.

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