[Fwd: NSA tapping undersea fibers?]

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri, 25 May 2001 08:28:03 +0200


On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ben Meghreblian wrote:

> As the article points out, the shear volume of traffic would be a problem, 
> but isn't this the same kind of situation as echelon, where filters can, to 
> some extent, limit the traffic that is analysed?

The ICC 2000 report has some stuff on this and also on tapping
undersea fibers; so without having read the story it seems to be an
old one.

  Werner


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