Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Records Show

Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:46PM (#11393618)

Abraham Lincoln had the nations' telegraph wires all terminate in a room in Washington DC, get received and inspected, then retransmitted. That was 150 years ago.

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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by fosco on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @07:16PM (#11393761)

considering that the first line in the states was built from DC to Baltimore [0] I find this a bit like the comments that 70% of the worlds internet goes through Northern Virginia[1]. If part of the technology was invented in a specific area where a large group of people had knowledge then that is the reason why it is a central point of crossing (termination)

[0] http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_morsecod_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor

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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by kuschku on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:14AM (#11396294)

> comments that 70% of the worlds internet goes through Northern Virginia[1].

Funnily, 70% of the internet also goes through Frankfurt (DE-CIX, largest IX globally).

The 70% number is also the most commonly made up number for made up statistics, of which there are many.

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