Here is one of my explanations to customer on how traffic is routed and what they can expect or what their responsibilities are to ensure complete and secure transmission over any medium they use to send a thought, product or even a spreadsheet to anyone.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3031768/posts?page=106#106
You’ll get the idea by the time you get to Layer three of the OSI model and that may be all you need to know. In fact, I tell customers that the rest may be more detailed and complicated than they care to hear and I can explain it if they honestly have the time(never been asked to)
The important part is what elements they own, lease or rent and have 4th amendment rights the same as if they owned, leased or rented a domicile, room on a ship, hotel room, private plane, commercial plane, Any motorized vehicle, etc.
Once they pierce yoru 4th amendment they can rob you of your 1st. Once they do that they can infringe on your 2nd, in certain quasi ways your 3rd, edges of your 5th and so on.
We really appreciate your simplifying these technical details for us. It is plain to see that the Constitutional Republic is now dead. With a corrupted court system and complete data enabling for government snooping, there is nothing now that is actually guaranteed by a document which a regime can and does ignore in order to expand their powers over US.