You should assume so and accept nothing short of end to end encryption as a secure channel. That's been true for decades.
Assume, the Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, Americans, and everybody else gets a copy of all the bytes you send and receive. That may or may not be true depending on who or where you are and how competent their people are. But you can't rely on that not being the case so you simply shouldn't. So make sure that whatever they intercept is gibberish.
Is there any unencrypted traffic over these cables at all at this point? It's all ssl and https at this point, I would hope. There's still some intelligence to be extracted from which IP addresses are talking to which other IP addresses. But beyond that? What's really there to be intercepted that we haven't fixed yet?
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You should assume so and accept nothing short of end to end encryption as a secure channel. That's been true for decades.
Assume, the Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, Americans, and everybody else gets a copy of all the bytes you send and receive. That may or may not be true depending on who or where you are and how competent their people are. But you can't rely on that not being the case so you simply shouldn't. So make sure that whatever they intercept is gibberish.
Is there any unencrypted traffic over these cables at all at this point? It's all ssl and https at this point, I would hope. There's still some intelligence to be extracted from which IP addresses are talking to which other IP addresses. But beyond that? What's really there to be intercepted that we haven't fixed yet?