latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo DC-to-DC traffic

Thu Oct 31 14:02:58 UTC 2013

Was the unplanned L3 DF maintenance that took place on Tuesday a frantic
removal of taps? :-)

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jacque O'Lantern <
> jacque.olantern at yandex.com> wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
>
>
> --- brandon.galbraith at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith at gmail.com>
>
> Google is speeding up its initiative to encrypt all DC to DC traffic, as
> this was suspected a short time ago.
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallout-google-speeds-data-encryptio/240161070
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> This goes back to our conversation last June:
>
> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/thread.html#59352
>
> now $189K may not seem as 'big'!  ;-)
>
> (http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/059371.html)
>
>
> scott
>
>

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