Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Thanks to NSA Snoopers Brazil Moves to Break Out of US-Centric Internet

I guess more countries will now follow the China model of the Internet.

Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. 

President Dilma Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company's network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google.

What she doesn't know though is that the NSA will probably work with the CIA to set something up in Brazil to continue to spy on them. Even if they wall off the US Internet is still doesn't protect them from snooping.

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