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- Path: sparky!uunet!bcstec!silverm
- From: silverm@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Silverman)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: Detecting an Ethernet Tap
- Message-ID: <4287@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 05:27:17 GMT
- References: <1786@admin.mport.COM> <k0BFuB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> <1992Nov18.102814.4127@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
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- ujacampbe@memstvx1.memst.edu (James Campbell) writes:
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- > I guess I was out of the loop on that one. What's the principle behind
- >Raynet's tapping technology?
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- > James Campbell, Math Sciences Department, MSU; ujacampbe@memstvx1.memst.edu
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- The story I was told is that it involves carefully scraping a bit of the jacket
- off of the fiber and then fixing a photodetector at the spot. With a little
- practice, you can do it without breaking the fiber. ALthough I haven't heard
- of anybody doing this, couldn't it be done by applying a small drop of some
- acid (not Hydrofluric?)? I think the jackets of the fiber optic and the
- inner fiber is silicon Dioxide.
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- As far as reading a screen from a distance - it is relatively easy to do if
- you have a parabolic antenna.
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- You can't trust humans, you can't trust computers, you can't trust the
- government - I guess I'll go have a pizza.
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- Jeff Silverman, Boeing COMMERCIAL airplane
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