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so this might happen in the SMB space. but any slightly global corp? just how will that US office be connected? will BMW cut off all of the US? Nestle? Sanofi-Aventis? Heineken? Toyota?

if it's on the internet, everyone is snooping it. your traffic crosses swedish borders? swedish intelligence has the right and means to copy everything. haven't seen new routing tables being adjusted to avoid sweden. facebook has their EU datacenter there.

it's kneejerk-ish IT admins who are pulling these things right now. who don't understand what having anything connected to the internet really means. any un-encrypted email plus their attachments? that pricelist you just sent your colleague? public. chatting with partners over g2m or skype? public.

but sure, the NSA is listening in on your little bikeshop which is using basecamp or mailchimp. core interests of the USA in peril.




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