The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping

[Strange Beacons]

In addition to gaining access to web companies' servers and asking for phone metadata, we've now learned that both the U.S. and the U.K. spy agencies are tapping directly into the Internet's backbone - the undersea fiber optic cables that shuttle online communications between countries and servers.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/

[Pigmeat]

It seems to me my pal Al posted similar info on the FRN a few years back? Al is always years ahead everyone else. Of course he's older than dirt, so he's got a head start.

I had a friend who was a subcontractor for a certain agency based at Ft. Meade from the mid-70's through the mid-90's. As he's dead, here is some of what he told me to be careful about.

All international calls to and from the US are initially monitored and have been since the height of the Cold War with the consent of the major telecommunication companies.

As the interweb leases transmission lines and satellites from these same phone companies, guess who might be peeking at your secret online stuff?