Yes in case someone missed this, a very interesting little post from washington post titled: How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/how-we-know-the-nsa-had-access-to-internal-google-and-yahoo-cloud-data/
--joshua On Nov 6, 2013, at 5:52 PM, "Marcus G. Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > On 11/6/13, 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: >> I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope so! >> And the clients all support encryption or alternatively use https web-apps. > Some providers use more lighter protocols like LMTPA (Local Mail Transfer > Protocol) for internal transfers. The idea being that if the mail doesn't > hit the internet then the physical security of the ISP is sufficient, even > though the ISP switches over to TLS security for the delivery once the data > is headed for the internet. And Google does the latter. But for Google > their internal network is world spanning, and delegated off to other > companies fiber infrastructure. Question is, does Google have a fastpath > for gmail-to-gmail deliveries that does not use any encryption? According to > the leaked slides, the NSA was busy deconstructing the Google and Yahoo > internal protocols, so they must have thought it would be profitable. (And > Google engineers say that the slides indeed reveal proprietary information.) > > Marcus > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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