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		lallysingh on May 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables These aren't military links. Lots of stuff is unencrypted or shittily so.

jsty on May 28, 2019 [–]

Surely a few potential snooping countries have the capabilities to tap seabed fibre by now, and we'd be better served having carriers add encryption at the link level regardless of who laid the cable.

lallysingh on May 28, 2019 | [–]

The carriers would get subpoena/NSL'd in a heartbeat

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