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Originally Posted by wootpr0n
But it really doesn't matter. If the government wants access to your e-mail, they can get it from AT&T. All of the worlds internet and telephone traffic passes through them at some point, and they have rooms where the NSA can just help itself to whatever it wants.
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I can believe a sizeable portion of traffic would go through AT&T, but not EVERYTHING. For example, to get from Australia to Japan there's no path via the USA. ISPs and hosts also have private peering links which decentralise the net somewhat.