(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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:00AM
... "That's what submarines are for" but some others beat me to it.
However it would be straightforward to encrypt all the data that passes through the cable.
Yeah the NSA is good at code cracking, but don't think the europeans don't know how to design a cipher that the NSA cannot crack.
Most codebreaking isn't actually any kind of mathematical finesse. Go look at the XKCD where they discuss how difficult it would be to crack and encrypted computer, as comparing to beating the computer's owner over the head with a five-dollar wrench.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:44AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:59AM
How is that going to work, when the CPU you connect to the bugged cable has no idea about the encryption key?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by WillR on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:24PM