The cable this sub tapped was the line between Kamchatka and Vladivostok. Both sound a bit like Nantucket, but really aren't in Massachusetts or any other US st

The cable this sub tapped was the line between Kamchatka and Vladivostok. Both sound a bit like Nantucket, but really aren't in Massachusetts or any other US state. This thread started with "track and monitor its citizens" and continued "If you think that’s wild, ...", the latter of which was going for the tu quoque, i. e. "the US is worse than North Korea", for which the example is useless. It would work well in supporting the argument that the NSA (or CIA) had some rather sophisticated technology all the way back in the 80s, at least compared to North Korea, which, frankly, wouldn't be very surprising but at least somewhat sane, which makes it a rather sad commentary on the state of discourse that there is zero doubt which argument the parent comment was going for.