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I think Google's internal network was unencrypted in 2013 [1], allowing the NSA to tap it. After the Snowden leaks showed that they were being tapped, Google mo

I think Google's internal network was unencrypted in 2013 [1], allowing the NSA to tap it. After the Snowden leaks showed that they were being tapped, Google moved to encrypting data on their internal links. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon made a similar decision. [1]: https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-here-nsa-smiley/ https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...

twoodfin 6y ago
Right, but this is in the context of AWS, where Amazon has got thousands of customers running their own code in its data center. I'd (naively?) assumed that any novel protocols to ship data back and forth between hosts in that environment would have been built on TLS from day 1.