DEF CON Talk: Hacking Fiber and ISPs for Wiretapping
itsarnavb · x · 2026-08-08
The original author hyped up a presentation at the DEF CON conference, calling it a 'banger work'.
The quoted tweet reveals that researchers @rithvikvibhut and @thel3l will live-stream their demonstration on how they successfully hacked into fiber networks, ISPs, and executed wiretapping.
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