NSA’s Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

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NSA’s Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World
A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world’s internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it.

It is not by coincidence that the world’s centers of commerce and technology are dense with data transfer facilities. A corollary to the 2007 Submarine Cable Map.