[AusNOG] Solomon Islands loses landing rights for a cable in Sydney

[John Lindsay]

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. 

John Lindsay

> On 27 Jul 2017, at 11:15 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
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>> On 27 July 2017 at 23:33, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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...
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