Answers to Topicality Domestic – (___) (__) Modern communication blurs the line between Foreign and Domestic. Sanchez, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, 2014 Julian,, 6-5-2014, "Snowden: Year One," Cato Unbound, The second basic fact is that modern communications networks obliterate many of the assumptions about the importance of geography that had long structured surveillance law. A Internet “domestic” communication between a user in Manhattan and a server in Palo Alto might, at midday in the United States, be routed through less congested pipes, or to a mirror in Ireland, while a nocturnal Asia’s e-mail service operated from Egypt may be hosted in San we really need to “foreign” Antonio. “What do is all the bad guys need to be on this section of the former NSA director Keith Alexander Internet,” likes to they only operate over here. All good people operate over here. All bad guys over joke. “And never been quite that easy—but General used to be closer to here.” It’s Alexander’s dream scenario the truth. State adversaries communicated primarily over dedicated circuits that could be intercepted wholesale without much worry about bumping into innocent Americans, whereas a communication entering the United States could generally be presumed to be with someone in the United States. The traditional division of intelligence powers by physical geography—particularized warrants on this side of the border, an interception free-for-all on the other—no longer tracks the reality of global information flows.
Answers to – Topicality Domestic (___) (__) Modern communication blurs the line between Foreign and Domestic. Sanchez, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, 2014 Julian,, 6-5-2014, "Snowden: Year One," Cato Unbound, The second basic fact is that modern communications networks obliterate many of the assumptions about the importance of geography that had long structured surveillance law. A “domestic” Internet communication between a user in Manhattan and a server in Palo Alto might, at midday in the United States, be routed through nocturnal Asia’s less congested pipes, or to a mirror in Ireland, while a “foreign” e-mail service operated from Egypt may be hosted in San Antonio. “What we really need to do is all the bad guys need to be on this section of the Internet,” former NSA director Keith Alexander likes to joke. “And they only operate over here. All good people operate over here. All bad guys over here.” It’s never been quite that easy—but General Alexander’s dream scenario used to be closer to the truth. State adversaries communicated primarily over dedicated circuits that could be intercepted wholesale without much worry about bumping into innocent Americans, whereas a communication entering the United States could generally be presumed to be with someone in the United States. The traditional division of intelligence powers by physical geography—particularized warrants on this side of the border, an interception free-for-all on the other—no longer tracks the reality of global information flows.
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