The intercepts referenced in the Post article date from 2009 to 2012, and during substantially all this time Facebook chose not to force SSL by default. Facebo

The intercepts referenced in the Post article date from 2009 to 2012, and during substantially all this time Facebook chose not to force SSL by default. Facebook did not enable SSL by default until about only half a year before Edward Snowden went public: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/11/14/platform-updates--operation-developer-love/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/11/14/platfor... The absence of SSL and presence of plenty of fiber taps provides a pretty big big data stream to mine...