[tinfoilman]

Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.

[jlgaddis]

They probably get half of the strands, to mirror all the data passing through the other half.

[tmwh91]

You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.

[visarga]

or Youtube streams...

[chinathrow]

That were my thoughts before, or at least how I'd do it:

- seal deals to get x strands

- tap it while still unlit

- mirror what you need and exfiltrate directly over your own private strands

- profit

[higherpurpose]

Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...