Brazil to build own fibre optic network to avoid NSA

[David Guyatt]

More on the tectonic shifts that are taking place around the world to lock the USA out in the cold.

Brazil builds its own fiber optic network to avoid the NSA
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November 11, 2014


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November 11, 2014
Santiago, Chile
This past week Brazil announced that it will be building a 3,500-mile fiber-optic cable to Portugal in order to avoid the grip of the NSA.
What's more, they announced that not a penny of the $185 million expected to be spent on the project will go to American firms, simply because they don't want to take any chances that the US government will tap the system.
It's incredible how far now individuals, corporations, and even governments are willing to go to protect themselves from the government of the Land of the Free.
The German government, especially upset by the discovery of US spying within its borders, has come up with a range of unique methods to block out prying ears.
They have even gone so far as to play classical music loudly over official meetings so as to obfuscate the conversation for any outside listeners.
They've also seriously contemplated the idea of returning back to typewriters to eliminate the possibilities of computer surveillance.
More practically, the government of Brazil has banned the use of Microsoft technologies in all government offices, something that was also done in China earlier this year.
The Red, White, and Blue Scare has now replaced the Red Scare of the Cold War era. And it comes at serious cost.
From Brazil's rejection of American IT products alone, it is estimated that American firms will lose out on over $35 billion in revenue over the next two years.
Thus, as the foundation of the country's moral high-ground begins to falter, so does its economic strength.
The irony should not be lost on anyone; on a day when Americans celebrate their veterans' courage in fighting against the forces of tyranny in the world, we find yet another example of where the rest of the world sees the source of tyranny today.
It's amazing how much things have changed.
In the past, the world trusted America with so much responsibility.
The US dollar was the world's reserve currency. The US banking system formed the foundation of the global banking system. US technology became the backbone of the global Internet.
But the US government has been abusing this trust for decades.
Today the rest of the world realizes they no longer need to rely on the US as they once did.
And in light of so much abuse and mistrust, they're eagerly creating their own solutions.
Just imagineif Brazil is building its own fiber optic cable to avoid the NSA, it stands to reason that they would create their own alternatives in the financial system to directly compete with the IMF and the US dollar.
Oh wait, they're already doing that too. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Our goal is simple: To help you achieve personal liberty and financial prosperity no matter what happens.

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BRICS COUNTRIES BUILD NEW INTERNET TO AVOID NSA SPYING




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Fiber optic undersea cable bypassing U.S. to be completed by 2015
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BRICS countries are close to completing a brand new Internet backbone that would bypass the United States entirely and thereby protect both governments and citizens from NSA spying.


In light of revelations that the National Security Agency hacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, in addition to recording information about 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, the fallout against the NSA has accelerated.
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Brazil is set to finalize a 34,000-kilometre undersea fiber-optic cable by 2015 that will run from Vladivostok, Russia to Fortaleza, Brazil, via Shantou, China, Chennai, India and Cape Town, South Africa.
According to the Hindu, the project will create, "a network free of US eavesdropping," which via legislative mandates will also force the likes of Google, Facebook and Yahoo to store all data generated by BRICS nations locally, shielding it from NSA snooping.
"The BRICS countries have the muscle to pull this off," notes Washington's Blog. "Each of the BRICS countries are in the top 25 largest economies in the world. China has the world's second largest economy, India is 3rd, Russia 6th, Brazil 7th, and South Africa 25th."
However, some privacy experts fear that this will do little to stop the NSA, given that it has tapped undersea cables since the Cold War era. Others are more positive.
"Any alternative would be a positive thing, writes Michael Dorfman. "The more choice you have, the better. Yet no-one can say for sure whether this new Internet will be safer than its US counterpart and will be able to protect the rights of regular users, including the privacy of personal data and free access to resources, more effectively."
The BRICS cable was already in development months before the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden first became public in June.
In September it emerged that the NSA had been spying on Brazilian government communications as well as Brazilian oil company Petrobras. Spooks hacked into the firm's computer network to eavesdrop on conversations between CEOs.
The current Internet architecture is dominated by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which is largely controlled by the United States.
Other entrepreneurs are also fighting back against NSA surveillance. Tech maverick John McAfee recently announced that he was to fund a $100 gadget named Decentral that would sync up with a modem to thwart NSA spying and provide total anonymity.
Asked what he would do if the US government banned the product, McAfee responded, "I'll sell it in England, Japan, the Third World. This is coming and cannot be stopped."