On 8/2/13 1:21 PM, Gary Baribault wrote:
Having access to the building is ok, but you still need to sniff the fibre, and in a centre like that any tap would be found quickly by one tech or another .. the guys from NANOG are good, so the deal must be with the carriers.

The guys from NANOG are great indeed, but that's way above them :)

Deal with carrier is a one thing, silent deals with IX another. And surely they do both. You can also tap in many places when cable is going from/to the ocean (needs a carrier deal, so what? Easy.)

Also, there's a lot of carrier connectivity on wireless - think satellite, or directed micro waves links. It's much easier to use a satelite for say, a phone calls than connecting your XX islands with a fibre.

Guess what these guys are doing:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Collection_Service
2. FORNSAT
3. SSO, which is the Special Source Operations division, the branch of NSA which taps cables, finds microwave paths, and otherwise collects data not generated by F6 or foreign satellites. (from Wikipedia)

I just wonder how many of the under water cable "repairs" were caused by a real incidents, and how many not really ;) There's no magic, you need to disconnect the cable for a while to tap it.
If it's a 'legit' connection then No Problèmo

Gary B

 On 08/02/2013 07:04 AM, Joseph Jackson wrote:

Why would they need to peer with all tier 1s? If you get access to the major exchange points (1 wilshire, 60 hudson, etc) you will get the majority of traffic.

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So you think this is real ? All Tiers 1 would be partner with NSA ? Even in Europ ? This sound crazy


Le 1 août 2013 à 22:19, Gary Baribault <g...@baribault.net <mailto:g...@baribault.net>> a écrit :

    Don't forget that they also have to back haul that data to their
    data centres !! They would have to have secret agreements with
    all of the Tier 1 carriers. Sure sounds far fetched!

    Gary B


    On 08/01/2013 03:51 PM, XF wrote:

        Right. But where are their tap ? In Internet Exchange Point ?
        In AS ? And how can they do that ? "Hello, I'm NSA, can I get
        a TAP on your network" :-)  This would say that ISP agree and
        the amount of data to transfer would be so vast . How can
        they transfer all this amount of data into their system ??


        Le 1 août 2013 à 20:56, Gary Baribault <g...@baribault.net
        <mailto:g...@baribault.net>> a écrit :

            Optically tapping ALL of the submarine cable going into
            and out of the U.S. would still not give them ALL of the
            claimed data. They have to be tapping all of the major
            traffic exchange sites in the U.S. to get this kind of data.

            Gary B

             On 08/01/2013 11:31 AM, XF wrote:
            > Did you understood how

                        they collect data ? This is not clear for
            me...ISP backdoor

                        ? Optical tap on sub marine wire ?

                        >

                        > Le 1 août 2013 à 16:26, Georgi Guninski
            <gunin...@guninski.com> <mailto:gunin...@guninski.com>

                        a écrit :

                        >

                        >> it will be interesting to me what will
            remain of

                        the nsa

                        >> when the chinese comrades stop giving
            fresh money

                        to the usa.

                        >>

                        >> Detroit news are not very pink.

                        >>

                        >> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:20:27PM +1200, Hugh

                        Davenport wrote:

                        >>> meanwhile, in new zealand, prime minister

                        suggests that we aren't

                        >>> the slaves for nsa...

                        >>>

                        >>> On 2013-08-01 19:23, Georgi Guninski wrote:

                        >>>> XKeyscore sees 'nearly EVERYTHING you do

                        online

                        >>>>

                        >>>>

            
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/prism_put_in_the_shade_by_leak_about_even_more_powerful_snoop_tool/

                        >>>> New NSA tool exposed: XKeyscore sees

                        'nearly EVERYTHING you do online'

                        >>>>

                        >>>> From the presentation:

                        >>>> * Show me all the exploitable machines in

                        country X

                        >>>>

                        >>>> * How do I find a cell of terrorust that

                        has no

                        >>>> connection to known strong-selectors

                        >>>> **Anomalous events

                        >>>> ***Someone who is using encryption

                        >>>>

                        >>>>

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