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Brazil, Europe Direct Cable to avoid US spying

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:21AM   Printer-friendly
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"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Aiwendil on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:26PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:26PM (#6902) Journal

    Which always made me wonder why communication-cables lacks point-to-point encryption.

    Since both endpoints are controlled by the same entities one could even have extra fun and use different cryptos (be it keys of algos) on the different "channels" in the cable, I mean, how often are the packages of data-stream all sent over the same modulation in the same fibre?