{"id":132,"date":"2013-07-10T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/?p=132"},"modified":"2014-02-19T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:57:49","slug":"nsa-eavesdropping-of-undersea-telecom-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/2013\/07\/nsa-eavesdropping-of-undersea-telecom-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA eavesdropping of undersea telecom cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many Snowden-revealed NSA document show, NSA is actively involved with breaking in and tapping undersea cables including high-speed telecom and internet optical fibers. These\u00a0surveillance, tapping and sniffing may have been enabled both by hacking and by physical submarine operation with secret cover stories even within US DoD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/the-nsa-slide-you-havent-seen\/2013\/07\/10\/32801426-e8e6-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html\">NSA slide shows surveillance of undersea cables &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/page\/business\/a-connected-world\/305\/\">A connected world &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptome.info\/cable-cuts.htm\">Undersea Optical Cable Cuts<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Cypherpunks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/07\/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping\/277855\/\">The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping &#8211; Olga Khazan &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969-3.html\">Inside TAO: The NSA&#8217;s Shadow Network (scroll down for : <b>Tapping Undersea Cables,\u00a0SEA-Me-We Undersea Cable Systems (SMW-4) compromise<\/b>) &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leaksource.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/30\/nsa-spying-on-europe-asia-sea-me-we-4-undersea-telecom-cables\/\">NSA Spying on Europe\/Asia SEA-ME-WE-4 Undersea Telecom Cables | LeakSource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/france-orange-sue-nsa-991\/\">French telecom operator Orange threatens to sue NSA over cable tapping \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reseaux.blog.lemonde.fr\/files\/2012\/12\/Afrique_cables_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reseaux.blog.lemonde.fr\/files\/2012\/12\/Afrique_cables_2013.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many Snowden-revealed NSA document show, NSA is actively involved with breaking in and tapping undersea cables including high-speed telecom and internet optical fibers. These\u00a0surveillance, tapping and sniffing may have been enabled both by hacking and by physical submarine operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}