alt Hacker NewsIs it the powerful servers making the difference here? Or the coveted back haul connections which have access to the data passing by?
I suppose it's both but the latter is a more scarce resource
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sambull • last Thursday at 3:24 PM
It's the servers specifically the parallelization with more cores and better math functions like AVX512.
It used to be that they needed to dedicate entire rooms for interception hardware, and tighter maintenance schedules. Nowadays, the devices they use are tiny in comparison, way easier to hide. I've encountered infrastructure companies discovering hardware that doesn't belong to them, in their local infrastructure, and when detected and reported, law enforcement came to pick it up, and refused to talk about it. That case still hasn't had a resolution, and it's about 4 years ago now.