Can fibre-optic be tapped???

[Michael Dillon <michael @ memra . com>]

I saw thsi in a USENET newsgroup. Any basis in fact?

> I thought I read somewhere that someone had come up with a way to
> "read" data going over a fiber link, by interference with a second laser
> "perpendicular" to the fiber - does this ring any bells out there? 

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