He jumped to a conclusion, not realizing that the NSA had plenty of perfectly legal reasons to have split off copies of backbone fiber trunks. A great example

He jumped to a conclusion, not realizing that the NSA had plenty of perfectly legal reasons to have split off copies of backbone fiber trunks. A great example is point #4, "Some beautiful misdirection", in https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everything-how.html https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everythin... discussed 3 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139828 That's some ingenious stuff that is 100% legal. Plus, it's not as if foreign data doesn't cross the USA. The USA is the best path from China to France. Maybe they'd really prefer to take the public relations hit of everybody thinking that they spy on Americans.