> with a limited budget (of both the financial sort and the effort sort) > When you've got every fiber tapped around the world, it becomes trivial These phras

> with a limited budget (of both the financial sort and the effort sort) > When you've got every fiber tapped around the world, it becomes trivial These phrases are in conflict. If their budget is limited, we shouldn't expect them to be able to trivially tap the whole world. If tapping the whole world is trivial, they probably have the resources to spin up some VPN front companies. Or more likely, suborn existing VPNs.