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Brazil, Europe Direct Cable to avoid US spying

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:21AM   
from the Take-my-data-and-go-home dept.

c0lo writes: "Reuters reports

(Reuters) Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.

At a summit in Brussels, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the $185 million cable project was central to "guarantee the neutrality" of the Internet, signaling her desire to shield Brazil's Internet traffic from U.S. surveillance. According to other sources, the construction is scheduled to begin in July.

A joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain's IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

So it has come to this"

• Re:Futility (Score: 5, Interesting) by TheLink on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:41AM

  by TheLink (332) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:41AM (#6509) Journal

  Yep. They better use encryption if they are really worried about that.
  
  As far as I see the main technical advantage of a direct cable is lower latency. Otherwise they could have set up a "virtual encrypted cable" over the existing stuff.
  
  The other advantages are political and perhaps economic.

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