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am_Unition  ·  3643 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables

Pretty sure that's Borat/Sacha Baron Cohen on one of the presentation slides.

Anyway, pretty terrifying overall, but it makes sense; Owning the nodes = owning inter-country internet communication.

I'd love to know whether these capabilities have actually yielded any worthwhile results, but I'll bet that's the most classified tidbit of information about this entire operation.