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Facebook and Amazon take over Philippines-to-USA sub cable after China Mobile quits

Jamie Jones Silver badge
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Re: Encrypt the endpoints!

Of course, but that's down to the company using the link, and is nothing to do with whatever carrier owns the pipe!

The original point was about China spying on the metadata of the undersea link. I contend it won't be an issue.

Basically, if I ran a company on both sides of the pond, and I wanted to buy a connection to connect them (whether I'm an ISP, transit company, or even a private company wanting to reliably link 2 sites, I'd basically run a VPN connection between the 2 sites, over this link.

Therefore it doesn't matter if China or Facebook, or anyone else is involved in the link - the only metadata they will be able to gather is how much traffic goes A <> B and when.

These sorts of links won't be carrying individual connection streams, they'll be point-to-point links for whatever company signs up to use them, and the only metadata available will be whats associated with these links..

That was my point!

Oh, and split thread, yep! Sorry for repeating myself!

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