The Feds have direct taps into every major telecom carrier in the US. You can't ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		adventured on June 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Page addresses PRISM The Feds have direct taps into every major telecom carrier in the US. You can't fire off a search query to Google without the Feds technically being able to pick it up. Access is trivial, volume is a much more interesting problem.

zero_intp on June 8, 2013 [–]

This is accurate. When your service provider is having a scheduled maintenance, it might be a passive optical tap or port replicator.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact