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As if the NSA isn't all over this already? Or are we ok with that given the nature of their work? They literally dug holes in the ground to tap Google's fiber
by eternalny1 7y ago
As if the NSA isn't all over this already? Or are we ok with that given the nature of their work?
They literally dug holes in the ground to tap Google's fiber lines and bypass encryption.
The Snowden slides showed with gleeful joy how they were siphoning all data from Yahoo, Skype, Google, and numerous others.
The real question is will all this stored data be used for the stated mission purpose of the NSA, or will we get (do we have?) "mission creep"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- roca 7y agoThe NSA was able to read Google's traffic because Google did not encrypt traffic over their fiber. When they found out that the NSA was tapping their fiber, they started encrypting that traffic. I don't know of any reason to believe that the NSA has access to decrypted Google traffic today, except via court order.
- xg15 7y agoWhat I'd be interested to know is how the situation is past the encrypted connections, i.e. inside the data centers. If you can't wiretap the connection, it seems like a logical choice that your next angle of attack would be the data centers. While you might not get insight on Google (without cooperation), the growing centralisation would actually make it easy to access data for many smaller companies: If you can convince just Amazon to work with you, you have potential access to the data of everyone that uses AWS.
- feelix 7y agoYou wouldn't know of any reason to believe that the NSA had access to google traffic back when they did if Snowden didn't allow you to know. Why choose to assume they don't rather than do?