RE: Fiber optic vampire taps

["Jimmy Sansi" <jsansi () ritzfoodservice com>]

...or use SSH tunneling and generate new keys frequently
if they are really paranoid. I think with fiber and some
sort of encryption scheme a person intent on sniffing traffic
has there work cut out.

At this point however it would probably be easier to bypass
the fiber altogether and exploit a workstation/server connected
to the internal LAN.

-Jimmy

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:18 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Fiber optic vampire taps


> From: "Hornat, Charles" <Charles_Hornat () standardandpoors com>
> This is not true.  The US Navy did this to the Russians a few years
> back.
> http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2002/07/29/newscolumn2
> .html
> I don't recall what this method was called back then though, it wasn't
> "clips".

You know, now that I think about it, if they are so worried, why not just
set up a VPN?

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"I can sleep at night because my servers are secure.  What's the secret you
ask?  I filled them with concrete."

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