UK's GCHQ directly tapped into fibre-optic cables to monitor Internet/phone traffic

While everyone's discussing PRISM, what came out of The Guardian's report
yesterday is that UK's GCHQ has been directly tapping into fibre-optic
cables to monitor Internet/phone traffic for the past 18 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

To quote:
"The documents reveal that by last year GCHQ was handling 600m "telephone
events" each day, had tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables and was able
to process data from at least 46 of them at a time."
... "This was done under secret agreements with commercial companies,
described in one document as "intercept partners"."

Best,
Manish

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