The U.S. has established seven monitoring stations across the country, tapping into internet users’ data for the past twenty years.
  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    I wonder what kind of useful info they actually get from monitoring network cables these days? source and destination IP address?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      30·
      1 day ago

      That’s a big part of it, but it’s also worth noting that intelligence agencies collect encrypted data as well because it might be possible to break the encryption in the future.

      • O__O [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        They can likely decrypt the majority of traffic. Google, Facebook and all other American companies will have handed over their SSL certs so all content can be intercepted and read.

        Same for any servers using cloudflare. Those servers are literally sending all traffic directly to the US.