[liberationtech] Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

[coderman]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:28 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> regarding the latest discussion of full take voice and cache for weeks...

i linked to WCI as one of many;  the Northstar upgrade complete with
"wetland beautification" as example of infrastructure at a landing
site consistent with terminating lambdas, yet the established and
operating landing facility is located off shore (like usual) in
Hillsboro.

JYA @ cryptome teaches a great course on reversing infrastructure to
identify intent.  together many clues present a picture. ;)


consider 641A rooms lurking on your landing sites:
"""
Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom
Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T
before SBC purchased AT&T. The room was referred to in internal AT&T
documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber
optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks
carrying Internet backbone traffic and, as analyzed by J. Scott
Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has
access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and
therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of
internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and
purely domestic traffic." Former director of the NSA's World
Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, William Binney,
has estimated that 10 to 20 such facilities have been installed
throughout the United States.
"""

prioritize by foreign landing site rather than domestic exchanges
you've got your half dozen favorites from the current focus.


and again, these are just the "confidential special partner agreement"
facilities.

 not the "legally compelled and gagged" orders,
   nor the black bag "non-compliant" taps...
    (like the USS Jimmy Carter ocean taps, my favorites :)