News The FCC wants to ban Chinese tech from the undersea cables that connect the U.S. to the rest of the world — proposed new rules would 'secure cables...

[Admin]

The FCC announced yesterday that it plans to vote on new rules "to unleash submarine cable investment to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure, while securing cables against foreign adversaries, like China.

The FCC wants to ban Chinese tech from the undersea cables that connect the U.S. to the rest of the world — proposed new rules would 'secure cables... : Read more

 

[chaos215bar2]

What does this have to do with AI?

 

[Amdlova]

What does this have to do with AI?

They are building AI data center in other places. Cheap electricity and they will need to connect it to The Mothership. So no chinese fingers allowed

 

[Eximo]

AI is also going to be constantly vacuuming the internet, so they will want the bandwidth.

 

[PDav]

Virtually all the traffic over those cables, certainly all the even slightly important traffic, is encrypted. Much of it is encrypted with manually exchanged symmetric keys, not RSA encryption. Quite a bit of it is under multiple layers of encryption, which, as you might imagine, can cause issues with MTU sizes and runt packets, unless some old hand forces the junior tech who set up the tunnel to have the routers engage in packet reassembly. (Yes, I've seen these problems, in real life, on real networks.)

So just how are the Chinese going to "harvest" this traffic? Are we arguing they are going to fill a couple petabytes per day just so they can decrypt all the old out of date information by tying up a trillion dollar quantum computer at some date in the future, for years? This whole FCC claim seems to be a load of the old bollocks to me.

 

[Li Ken-un]

This whole FCC claim seems to be a load of the old bollocks to me.

It’s as ridiculous as either side (I forget who made the claim) accusing the other of making NAND chips that could steal data. And just how are those NAND chips going to surreptitiously exfiltrate the data?

We’re talking about dumb pipes and buckets here.