Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: tapping into a fiber optic cable
Message-ID: <1990May31.154812.29725@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <46249@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 May 90 15:48:12 GMT

In article <46249@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman) writes:
>Can a fiber optic cable be "tapped" into without disturbing the data
>being transmitted?  I would like to run some fiber optic cable through
>some expensive equipment to prevent theft.  Loss of the signal would
>mean the cable has been cut...

Bypassing fiber would be possible in theory, I think, but if people with
that sort of resources want your equipment, better just give it to them. :-)
Not impossible but not easy.