Hacking Fiber Optics

Today Tonight explains how easy it is to hack fiber optics anywhere in the world and capture the data transmission.

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[robertleeevans]

This is media news B.S.

1) Encryption they can't overcome. SSL within VLAN tags etc etc.

2) They never showed the manhole opened. Some have alarms.

3) All the fiber paths maintained by our company....we know when a break occurs or packets are dropped during a splicing tap....so records are produced immediately.

4) Special meters at Points of Presence are used to tell where a loss or light refection occurs. On a multi-mile path, you can tell within a meter where the intrusion occurs.

[benjojo12]

SSL, enough said.

[akilla214u2c]

@obieezx11 LOL... I knew it was possible, but didn't know about the tools to do it.

[akilla214u2c]

@akilla214u2c Your only correct statement is encryption and encryption only protects for a period. And with SSL, there are expiration timers on the data, in which will make the data obsolete after the encryption is broken.

[akilla214u2c]

@robertleeevans Are you kidding... VLANS only segment traffic it does not secure it. And most Man-holes are not alarmed, nor is the fiber. The vulnerability here shows Fiber be sniffed without interruption of service. And if you're running TCP, packets drop and re-send all the time. No one watches packet drops, not even the NSA. And your wonderful ISP (Verizon, At&t, Bell South, Telekom) guess what, they have packet losses, frame drops all the time at the SDP. Why would they care?

[Ha11owed]

95% of the traffic does not need to be protected. Passwords, emails, bank transfers are encrypted.

I love how in their example they send the bank accounts in a .txt file... pff

[lowjokerid]

who can decode 128Mb md5 hash of undersea fiber optic???

and steal information undetected by alarm like deep sea ninjas???

[Baraquiel62]

thanks for the tip now I'm going to try it

[johncolesuk]

abd5c649d7a2c81d00c7bcee4e24a3­5e

Oh, wait you can't decrypt that. Hmm....

MD5 Hash of: "What a load of bull shit. MD5 FTW!"

[IllyaMuromets]

yeah it would be nice to first have fibre optics for the internet in vic. when its put in then make a story.

[KaineTECH]

LOL you think nobody knows how to do this? The criminals who are capable of pulling this off were doing this before anyone acknowledged it was even possible. By keeping vulnerabilities secret, you don't prevent criminals from knowing about it, you only succeed in keeping away the widespread attention that forces companies to fix their problems.

[obieezx11]

yay no one new how to do it till you showed them dick heads