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It's important to remember that Snowden has confirmed several times that "international" is referring to the physical wire/fiber/radio they are tapping, not the people at each end of the call. In a packet switched world, any call can become "international" if the packets are sent by way of the Bahamas. ("misconfigured" BGP is a traditional method)



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