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Linking the slide deck that caused Google to start encrypting the traffic between their own data centers running on their own fiber is perhaps not the most compelling argument that Google is a state asset.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/tech-companies-s...



You think it is so hard for the NSA to have a tap within Google's datacenters?

You think Google could say no to NSA if they were asking nicely to put a tap?

Encryption between datacenters is to keep away other state actors, not the US.


> You think it is so hard for the NSA to have a tap within Google's datacenters?

Yes

> You think Google could say no to NSA if they were asking nicely to put a tap?

Yes




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