N.S.A. May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot -- New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — The recent revelation that the National Security Agency was able to eavesdrop on the communications of Google and Yahoo users without breaking into either company’s data centers sounded like something pulled from a Robert Ludlum spy thriller.
How on earth, the companies asked, did the N.S.A. get their data without their knowing about it?
The most likely answer is a modern spin on a century-old eavesdropping tradition.
People knowledgeable about Google and Yahoo’s infrastructure say they believe that government spies bypassed the big Internet companies and hit them at a weak spot — the fiber-optic cables that connect data centers around the world and are owned by companies like Verizon Communications, the BT Group, the Vodafone Group and Level 3 Communications. In particular, fingers have been pointed at Level 3, the world’s largest so-called Internet backbone provider, whose cables are used by Google and Yahoo.
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More News On Reports That The NSA May Have Tapped Into L3's Fiber Optic Cables
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Level 3 may have helped the NSA tap Google’s fiber optic cables -- Venture Beat
NYT: NSA May Have Spied on Google, Yahoo Data Centers Via Fiber-Optic Cables -- Daily Tech
The weakest link: How the NSA may have hacked Google and Yahoo -- PC World
NSA may have tapped data on cables -- Business Standard
Did NSA Secretly Tap the Internet Backbone? -- Top Tech News
NSA Tapped Unencrypted Fiber-Optic Cables -- Newsmax
The NSA May Have Penetrated Internet Cables to Spy on Google and Yahoo -- Gizmodo
Quoted: on how the NSA may have tapped into Internet data -- Silicon Beat
My Comment: This is old news. While the L3 revelation is new .... I talked about this 4 months ago.
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