Tapping a fiber optic bundle isn’t quite so simple.
Actually, the bad part is totalitarianism.
VPNs can make this all okay.
Reminds me of Operation “Ivy Bells” where the NSA/CIA/USN
wiretapped the undersea cable located between the Soviet Pacific Fleet naval base at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Soviet Pacific Fleet’s mainland headquarters at Vladivostok. They did this utilizing a submarine and USN divers.
The Soviets had no idea we were tapping the cable until an NSA civilian employee who was also fluent in Russian, Ronald Pelton, entered the Soviet Embassy in D.C. in 1980 and told them all about it. For a price of course. Pelton was, at the time, $65K in debt. A lot of money in 1980.
Pelton was eventually caught and sentenced to a long stretch in prison. The Soviets located the tap and dismantled it.
President Donald Trump is a "bad guy", according to the illegitimate Tater junta.
“The good thing is that it’s makes keeping track of bad guys easier.”
Are there any good guys that can listen in?
Telecommunication has relied on cables since the start. And yes that means somebody can listen in. Of course even via satellite (which is taking over a lot, cables are insanely expensive) somebody can still listen in.
Here’s the basic math: if your communication goes through somebody’s hardware they can listen in.
Bkmrk
“The good thing is that it’s makes keeping track of bad guys easier.”
The bad thing is who decides who those bad guys are.
Only the data that isn’t end to end encrypted.
When we have another world war with peer adversaries most of the undersea data cables will be cut and satellites will be falling out of the sky like raindrops.
Except for the fact that THEY are the bad guys and they have declared that WE are the bad guys.
There’s no need to tap communications when you can just bribe an illegitimate president’s crackhead son and have that illegitimate president give you everything you want.