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What entities of strategic importance are still sending unencrypted data over third party fiber?



Metadata, which isn't encrypted, and is still the most powerful part of Prism/Xkeyscore, because most people don't try to understand it.


Normal people do so all the time and their communications are of strategic importance as well.


What kind of “normal people communication” specifically are we referring to that isn’t encrypted on the wire?




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