Sentence examples for cable tap from inspiring English sources

In 1980, Ronald Pelton, a former National Security Agency employee, compromised the Pacific cable tap operation by alerting the Soviets to the operation.

For around $1000, any hacker can purchase the equipment necessary to pull off a fiber optic cable tap on land, although if the cable happens to be underwater the cost would probably be a lot higher.

Do the G.C.H.Q.'s cable taps touch on the webcam conversations of Americans?

The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough.

Today's fresh revelation about NSA Internet cable tapping on U.S. soil is bound to intensify that debate.

They reveal: A 10-year NSA program against encryption technologies made a breakthrough in 2010 which made "vast amounts" of data collected through internet cable taps newly "exploitable".

Other data is collected from extensive cable tapping operations: the collection of both metadata and the content of communications travelling through the fibre-optic cables that make up the backbone of the internet.

These efforts included: A 10-year NSA program against encryption technologies made a breakthrough in 2010 which made "vast amounts" of data collected through internet cable taps newly "exploitable".

As the Guardian reported, Optic Nerve was based on collecting information from GCHQ's huge network of internet cable taps, which was then processed and fed into systems provided by the N.S.A. Webcam information was fed into NSA's XKeyscore search tool, and N.S.A. research was used to build the tool which identified Yahoo's webcam traffic.

In its report, the Post suggested the intercept project was codenamed Muscular, but the Guardian understands from other documents provided by Snowden that the term instead refers to the system that enables the initial processing of information gathered from NSA or GCHQ cable taps.

While it seems that the NSA has not compromised the core security of the Tor software or network, the documents detail proof-of-concept attacks, including several relying on the large-scale online surveillance systems maintained by the NSA and GCHQ through internet cable taps.