<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>There are cables that have science payloads in the repeaters. You can imagine something like a doped fibre that notices nuclear submarines passing or global warming or something else that the USA doesn't want measured. <br><br><div>John Lindsay</div></div><div><br>On 27 Jul 2017, at 11:15 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 July 2017 at 23:33, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I mean, really: the idea that a cable won't have listening devices on it just because it was installed by someone other than Huawei isn't exactly joined-up thinking either.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the bit that got me. If you're sending sensitive data that you don't want the {insert ANY} govt to get access to, the company that lays the fibre shouldn't really even come into consideration. You should be encrypting that traffic over the wire, at which point, it actually doesn't matter whether you trust the fibre installer or not...</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">
<p>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <span><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/" target="_blank">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><u><br></u></span>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</p></div></div>
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