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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cable Tapping
Thanks for keeping that battery research moving Garry!
I will have a report on the pressure hull to post
soon.
I will post all the hull specs at once, in a report,
so
all interested can vote on the most suitable hull.
Warren.
--- Garry Muir <garry.muir4@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Nice article on eavesdropping Steven there seems to
> be no end to the
> lengths that we people will go to spy on each other,
> I would be
> interested to know how they are going to splice into
> fibre optic cable
> or maybe they still do it the old way, crack open an
> amplifier and comb
> out the voice and data the are looking for, they are
> refining fibre
> technology so that in the near future unbroken cable
> lengths to any
> destination should be possible.
> Any sub history buffs out there know anything about
> the German cable
> tapping operations in the Atlantic, they apparently
> tapped into a UK to
> USA cable and intercepted diplomatic and military
> conversations over an
> encrypted line it took several months to work out
> the method of
> encryption, the whole project was controlled by the
> German Head
> Postmaster who was a technical wizard. I will post
> the battery specs
> for the OSS soon and I am now of to ebay to look for
> some Cisco and HP
> fibre gear just to see if it will fit in a psub.
>
> Regards, Garry
>
> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:15 am, Steven
> Mills wrote:
>
> > Check this out:
> >
> >
> > "Despite these challenges, "the U.S. has been
> reconfiguring the
> > submarine
> > USS Jimmy Carter for [fiber-optic tapping]," says
> Richelson. The Jimmy
> > Carter, one of a new Seawolf class, is being
> extensively modified for a
> > range of covert missions by the introduction of a
> new hull section,
> > which
> > will facilitate the use of remotely operated
> vehicles, surveillance
> > equipment, and the transport of Navy Seals, the
> U.S. Navy's special
> > operations warfare specialists. The sub is also
> being fitted with an
> > advanced communications mast, which will allow it
> both to eavesdrop on
> > radio
> > signals and transmit information back to base. The
> Jimmy Carter should
> > be
> > fully operational by mid-2005 [see illustration]."
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/apr03/codef1.html
> >>
> >
> > Then go to the main article:
> >
> >
>
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/apr03/code.html
> >
> >
> > --Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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