@flyingpenguin Fair point. Perhaps I ought to have been clearer, 'server and PaaS/cloud infrastructure' .
For sure you can scrape L2/L3 on the wire, and yes carriers are a big part of sigint picture, but nonetheless that's skinny pickings next to the bounty of vast storage clusters of actual intelligence data, esp in this era. Arguably incomparable I reckon.
@flyingpenguin Interesting what you mention as to Israel. Even further, the US republicans want a weak EU. Google, heck the whole GAFAM, is their inside man.
@JulianOliver right. and when you say republicans, I assume you mean GRU assets.
@JulianOliver the google cloud defense contractors who ask me to help seem to be rushing into robotic/drone systems, meaning the US would have a privatized (unaccountable) kill switch in NATO intel/defense. similar to how Musk single-handedly turned off Ukrainian defenses to enable Russia to bomb civilians.