Not at all.
If the EU and Brazil are using US cables, the US is just interfering with its own cable. Fair enough. Entirely different if the US attacks a cable it does not own. It changes the game. It could be considered a hostile act against allies.
If the EU and Brazil are using US cables, the US is just interfering with its own cable. Fair enough. Entirely different if the US attacks a cable it does not own. It changes the game. It could be considered a hostile act against allies.
Come on. Nine EU countries are complicit in the warrantless wiretap/metadata collection scheme GHCQ is running here on behalf of the NSA. If the US is tapping an EU cable, it's just more data going in the same fetid pool. You can see how outraged the various EU governments are by how loud they have been about it. The only one who seems genuinely upset is Merkel, and mostly because the German secret services don't have the same technical abilities.
I don't know how genuinely angry Brazil is, but I would be extremely surprised if Brazilian intelligence didn't have a similar setup at home.
I'd like to mention that from an outsiders viewpoint of the Germans, it seems they can't by choice rather than ability.
Never assume that Germans lack technical ability, either!
Problem's how are you going to prove it, run through the whole undersea cable every month to ensure it's not been tapped?
-Merkel"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-i...
Keeping an eye on the stock-market of the parties involved (who's went up, who's went down, who bought CDS instead, etc.) will tell you enough. For us, me at least, it's kinda hard to follow through. But imagine you are the "Bundesnachrichtendienst" (I know it's incredibly hard to read, not to mention to spell it correctly, maybe they did it on purpose), it's the German CIA counterpart. They have the means to find out easily.
What happens next depends on so many factors that it could be a good task for a prediction algorithm.
From the telegraph onwards, everyone has signals intelligence organizations, the sole purpose of which is to intercept foreign communications. This changes nothing.
This will launch, reduce latency for South Americans, and 10 minutes later it'll be tapped by the US, France, and everyone else who cares enough to send a submarine on over.