Comment by strictnein

> Yours and others' claims that it's impossible and nonsensical is based on lack of understanding.

lol, no, it's really not.

> Also when talking about encryption between servers within datacenters you seem to be missing that in order for such multi -stage/path encryption (separate certs/keys) to be possible the data first has to be decrypted at each point

Why would I want the data to be decrypted at each point and why would datacenters do that? Encrypting and decrypting data is expensive computationally, so that's not how things work at all. There's no need to decrypt data to know where it needs to go. That's why we have TCP/IP and other similar stadards.

The datacenters can maybe add another layer of encryption on top of my data as its moving around their networks, but there's absolutely no way for them to strip off my encryption.

> Yours and others' claims that things somehow got better after Snowden is just a completely baseless statement

Things didn't magically get better. A lot of people worked hard to improve the overall security posture of the industry.