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Just because your client is in Switzerland and your data center is in Germany, doesn’t mean a data center in Virginia doesn’t have a copy. https://youtu.be/JR6

Just because your client is in Switzerland and your data center is in Germany, doesn’t mean a data center in Virginia doesn’t have a copy. https://youtu.be/JR6YyYdF8ho https://youtu.be/JR6YyYdF8ho That was 14 years ago… We have MUCH more capabilities today.

Aurornis 8mo ago
Do you have a single actual source for anything you’re saying about this happening today? I’m well aware of the historical surveillance programs. I’m asking for a source for all of your claims about what’s happening today regarding 80% of internet traffic.
- reactordev 8mo ago
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo As for traffic, I can’t cite numbers, you’ll just have to trust me when I say it. I can’t give you packet breakdown or IP4 vs IP6. To have that discussion requires a secret clearance at least.
  - IAmGraydon 8mo ago
    Let’s be serious for a minute here. If you’re claiming to have secret clearance on an Internet forum, you don’t.
    - mijowi 8mo ago
      You may be surprised how cavalier some people are about their clearance.
      - dmoy 8mo ago
        Secret is also like... really common to have. 5 million people or whatever.
    - eagleal 8mo ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554
  - nozzlegear 8mo ago
    You have clearance enough to imply that these things are going on but not enough to actually prove anything? Surely the requirements of your clearance would come with some basic terms like "don't use winks and nudges to implicate us in vast conspiracies on public forums," or the far more simple "don't mention this to anyone."
    - iso1631 8mo ago
      Have you seen the kinds of people that the US government has employed recently? I suspect many in DOGE were given high levels of security clearance based on their ability to create dank memes on x
- mc32 8mo ago
  That claim makes no sense in today's world. For over a decade, the likes of Youtube, Netflix and short form video make the majority of throughput. Why in the world would anyone want to monitor known catalogs of content? Most of which are delivered by POPs in data centers distributed all over the world.
petcat 8mo ago
The datacenter is in Utah, not Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- ascorbic 8mo ago
  It's referring to us-east-1
  - petcat 8mo ago
    Sure, but the specific NSA datacenter that stores copies of every piece of data that transits the internet is in Utah, not Virginia.
- reactordev 8mo ago
  That’s cold storage
  - petcat 8mo ago
    Right, where the copies are stored.

Aurornis 8mo ago

Do you have a single actual source for anything you’re saying about this happening today? I’m well aware of the historical surveillance programs. I’m asking for a source for all of your claims about what’s happening today regarding 80% of internet traffic.

reactordev 8mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo As for traffic, I can’t cite numbers, you’ll just have to trust me when I say it. I can’t give you packet breakdown or IP4 vs IP6. To have that discussion requires a secret clearance at least.
- IAmGraydon 8mo ago
  Let’s be serious for a minute here. If you’re claiming to have secret clearance on an Internet forum, you don’t.
  - mijowi 8mo ago
    You may be surprised how cavalier some people are about their clearance.
    - dmoy 8mo ago
      Secret is also like... really common to have. 5 million people or whatever.
  - eagleal 8mo ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554
- nozzlegear 8mo ago
  You have clearance enough to imply that these things are going on but not enough to actually prove anything? Surely the requirements of your clearance would come with some basic terms like "don't use winks and nudges to implicate us in vast conspiracies on public forums," or the far more simple "don't mention this to anyone."
  - iso1631 8mo ago
    Have you seen the kinds of people that the US government has employed recently? I suspect many in DOGE were given high levels of security clearance based on their ability to create dank memes on x
mc32 8mo ago
That claim makes no sense in today's world. For over a decade, the likes of Youtube, Netflix and short form video make the majority of throughput. Why in the world would anyone want to monitor known catalogs of content? Most of which are delivered by POPs in data centers distributed all over the world.

petcat 8mo ago

The datacenter is in Utah, not Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

ascorbic 8mo ago
It's referring to us-east-1
- petcat 8mo ago
  Sure, but the specific NSA datacenter that stores copies of every piece of data that transits the internet is in Utah, not Virginia.
reactordev 8mo ago
That’s cold storage
- petcat 8mo ago
  Right, where the copies are stored.