Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> > > In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813 () email android com> you
> > > write:
> > > > The balkanizing of the Net?
> >
> > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/
> > >
> > > I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when
> > > someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be
> > > to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from.
> > >
> > > It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere
> > > other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and
> > > shorter routes.  But that would require a cable to other places
> > > (Africa and Europe.)  They can do that any time, so long as they pay
> > > for it.
> >
> > I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness:
> >
> > http://www.bricscable.com/
> >
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
> I wince for the copy-editor that missed the typo
> in this headline:
>
> http://www.bricscable.com/blog/brics-scale-black-plan-to-challenge-west/

Yeah. I reported that to them over the Summer... hopefully their cable
laying crew is more attentive to detail. ;-)

-Jim P.