Interesting. I too thought fibre optic cables were quite difficult to tap. Turns out this isn't the case. It's not only fairly easy (supposedly) but the equipment costs less than $1000. Just another reason for people to actually do what everyone knows they should do: don't send any sensitive data over any wire in unencrypted format.
- jim 9-25-2007 7:01 pm

Yep. That's the way to do it. A tight radius bend causes leakage. Perhaps the new development is the low-cost, high-sensitivity detector.

A more brute force way to do this is to hack in a repeater. That's much more easily detected -- if you're looking for it.
- mark 9-25-2007 9:59 pm





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