How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

Sat Nov 2 19:13:51 UTC 2013

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813 at email.android.com> you write:
>>The balkanizing of the Net?
>>
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/
>
> I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when
> someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be
> to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from.
>
> It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere
> other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and
> shorter routes.  But that would require a cable to other places
> (Africa and Europe.)  They can do that any time, so long as they pay
> for it.

I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness:

http://www.bricscable.com/

-Jim P.