re: #87 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

I’m curious about why you think this is true. Companies buy two things: one, resources to set up an intranet or the intranet itself, and two, high-speed access to the internet. What I’m not sure about is why you think that the bulk of their traffic is on the intranet, or why in a global VPN the data never travels along the internet.

What are the ‘facebook messaging servers’?

Because its the industry I work in? If you’re buying layer 2 or 3 MPLS circuits from a major provider , you’re traffic is certainly not going across the internet. This is by definition, and why those circuits are certified for PCI DSS without the use of encryption. Which is exactly what Google, Apple, etc buy. I suspect your knowledge may be a bit of a date, you may want to take a look at Verizon’s current business offerings.

Facebook messaging servers are exactly what they sound, the servers that provide the infastructure for the Facebook Messaging platform.

And yes, when it comes to areas like this the truth does frequently lay somewhere in the middle. Just because the NSA has access to Facebooks data does not mean that Facebook has provided access to it.