re: #130 BigPapa
Interesting story. However, I don’t know if they can tap into fiber cables easy as there’s no induction with light as there is electrical.
Fiber optic cables can be tapped by inserting a beam splitter assembly or hacking the electronics at the optical-electro-optical repeater junctions. These optical communications repeaters are required to overcome the attenuation that accompanies sending light over great distances inside a high index of refraction medium, because while absorption is low it’s still there. The USS Jimmy Carter was specifically designed to do this kind of work.