<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:40 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Fahd A. Batayneh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">While I do have Facebook and Twitter accounts, I have not accessed any of them for quite a long time, and I do not use them. This is what one can expect when posting personal data online. However, if we look at things differently, who is not exposed (Internet users)? All our Internet traffic passes through the various Tier-1 ISPs in the USA and EU</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>ALL, is a pretty strong statement. </div></div></blockquote><div><br>Well, we can exclude local traffic passing via IXPs or maybe within the same network, and maybe very sensitive data that move across the same Intranet, or maybe traffic that moves within censorship-driven countries.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Do you have any evidence for it?</div></div></blockquote><div>
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No one has evidence about either scenario (everything is monitored vs. something is monitored vs. nothing is monitored). But would you disagree that Internet traffic moving overseas does have to pass at access points based in Western countries?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">, and some of them might want to inspect traffic randomly as measures of "National Security".<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>None of them "want to", as it would impact business of passing packets.</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div>Not really. Business is one aspect of the story, but national interests is another (especially Western countries that keep using the term "War on Terror").<br><br>Fahd<br></div>