You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch…
A coil of fiber is not meant to be a listening device, so they almost certainly exist in places where it wasn’t previously deemed a risk.
That said, exploiting this in the wild seems like a pretty difficult job, I can’t imagine how to do it without already having access to a target computer.
The chances are the places that would be most at risk (and have a risk profile that would warrant that kind of paranoia) are already taking measures to circumvent this.
It’s the kind of spy movie shit where they need to listen to a confidential conversation in a room they can’t bug, but someone wildly hacks about on a keyboard, randomly pulls up schematics of the building showing all the fiber lines, immediately spots that there’s one near that room, conveniently has a gadget at hand or can quickly assemble it that they just need to attach somewhere and make every nerd cringe.
/boggle
And in other news, water makes things wet.
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Well, it’s more novel than that…
A coil of fiber is not meant to be a listening device, so they almost certainly exist in places where it wasn’t previously deemed a risk.
That said, exploiting this in the wild seems like a pretty difficult job, I can’t imagine how to do it without already having access to a target computer.
The chances are the places that would be most at risk (and have a risk profile that would warrant that kind of paranoia) are already taking measures to circumvent this.
It’s the kind of spy movie shit where they need to listen to a confidential conversation in a room they can’t bug, but someone wildly hacks about on a keyboard, randomly pulls up schematics of the building showing all the fiber lines, immediately spots that there’s one near that room, conveniently has a gadget at hand or can quickly assemble it that they just need to attach somewhere and make every nerd cringe.
And I… am that nerd!