[cantbecool]

Maybe some submarines are cutting some deep sea cables? In actuality it's probably massive backbone upgrades that are classified, the NSA has to obtain real-time data from somewhere.

[snazz]

Why would the NSA be doing such low-level (literal wiretapping) work anymore? Useful traffic is almost always encrypted.

[JohnBooty]

Knowing whom is communicating with whom is pretty useful to know, even if you can't decrypt the data.

[3JPLW]

Clearly this means they've broken public-key cryptography.

[earenndil]

Flaws could be discovered in modern communication such that they can decrypt it in 30 years time. How good is 30-year-old crypto today?

[2Ccltvcm]

They have a #ailored #ccess #perations department. Look it up.

[z3t4]

They log who talk to who

[helloworldies]

Is this a joke about the Russian communications sub fire?