re: #124 McSpiff

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.

Oh, I’m being sloppy in my usage of the internet, and I probably am out of date because I thought MPLS was mostly for POS devices communicating back and forth. I get what you mean, but I’m still groping for a situation where information would be transmitted in the clear in an interpretable way by a company like facebook along such a line. I’m probably just too out of date, but it seems to me that any significant traffic like that would be use-encrypted on its way between servers, so you’d also need a clone of Facebooks actual code to interpret the stuff.