Comment by Aurornis
7 days ago
You think there's an entire shadow infrastructure across the United States or world that carries 80% of all internet traffic all the way to VA?
It would have to be several times larger than the internet infrastructure itself due to the distances involved.
All built and maintained in secret?
You just don't have imagination. Google, just by itself, controls 89% of the traffic in the Internet. And we know that the government can get any information they want from them, without even asking too much. If you combine this with other major companies operating very close to the US government, it is probable that more than 95% of the web traffic outside China that is easily within reach of these sinister 3 letter organizations.
> Google, just by itself, controls 89% of the traffic in the Internet.
This is completely false and it should be obvious to anyone thinking about it critically.
Are you confusing search engine query share with internet traffic?
No. That isn't required at all. Fundamentally you lack understanding of how this happens. Yes, there is some port duplication. Yes it costs money. But it is not anywhere near as onerous as you assume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
> Fundamentally you lack understanding of how this happens. Yes, there is some port duplication. Yes it costs money. But it is not anywhere near as onerous as you assume
No, I understand networking hardware quite well actually. I'm also familiar with Room 641A. Room 641A did not capture 80% of internet traffic. If you think 80% of internet traffic could be routed through Room 641A you're not thinking about the infrastructure required to get it all there. It was a targeted operation on backbone lines that were right there.
While the most well known, there are other points of presence doing the same thing. Easy and trivial to duplicate traffic at line speed. It doesn't affect the traffic flow itself.
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