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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by Perseids on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @08:25PM (#6644519)
Why is the traffic in the fiber cables not encrypted between the endpoints? That would instantly nullify the attacks. Is AES hardware not cheap enough yet?
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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by jlgreco on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @08:59PM (#6644634)
Traditionally encryption is left to higher layers.
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