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IDG Contributor Network: Fiber map sheds light on infrastructure trends and weaknesses

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If you’ve ever wondered just where the fiber conduits that carry our Internet traffic run, wonder no more. Researchers have created a map.

Four years in the making, the map, sourced in part from public records, shows the long-haul fiber that carries Internet data around the country. Additionally, locations where multiple cables connect are shown.

This kind of map has never existed before.

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Not much is known about “today’s physical Internet infrastructure,” the researchers say.

So they delved in and, through a collection of Tier-1 ISP and cable company maps combined with public records, started to construct a map of the long-haul fiber network (PDF).

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IDG Contributor Network: Quantum computing breakthrough renews concerns of cybersecurity apocalypse

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The term “cryptopocalypse” was probably first coined at the Black Hat USA information security convention in 2013.

A talk presented by four security and technology experts at the show explored cryptographic weaknesses and attempted to answer the hypothetical question: “What happens the day after RSA is broken?“

RSA is a widely used public-key cryptosystem used in digital signatures.

The answer, they determined then, was: “almost total failure of trust in the Internet,” for one thing. The reason? Almost everything we do on the Internet is in some way protected by cryptography.

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