Not if you are in the business of spying! grin It takes a machine that
can penetrate or couple to the fiber without damaging its throughput
(much). I mean given that fiber splicing uses a pretty expensive machine
itself I doubt am eavesdropping device would be much harder to
manufacture... Your next big expense is to sort through the reams of
data that pass through the link!

Do you see it as being viable for amateur radio hobbyists or was your
post for general technical interest only? Perhaps I am missing some
possibilities here..

Cheers Bob

Marco Licetti wrote:
OK. Just one comment: intercepting fiberoptics is more complicated/costly
than metal "wires"