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Monday, October 20, 2014

The Tapped Submarine Cables Map


This calendar week High German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on how telecommunication companies convey been helping the UK's Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) to tap submarine cables.

The report, based on documents leaked past times Edward Snowden, revealed simply about details most submarine cables currently tapped past times GCHQ. Submarine Cable Taps is an interactive map which shows which undersea cables convey been tapped past times GCHQ as well as which cables are non mentioned inwards the leaked GCHQ documents.

The 'read me' department of the map's GitHub page warns that you lot shouldn't solely trust the data. There are simply about cables mentioned inwards the documents which convey non been identified as well as at that spot may endure simply about errors inwards the map.