Absolutely. I actually feel like pointing out the minor mistake distracted from my actual point. As others have pointed out in the past few hours, this article seems to do little more than point out where the NSA is fiber tapping on AT&T's network. This hardly seems like breaking news to me. The exposure of PRISM many years ago put the activity in the public eye.
To me, it seems like this article is sensationalizing a practice most were aware of already. I suppose it is mildly interesting to highlight a bunch of locations where it may be happening, but certainly not breaking news.
This is ridiculous, but I'll play along. California absolutely is a state. Further defining the location of a city in a state does not really explain how Washington DC ends up being classified as part of Maryland. Washington DC is not part of the state Maryland. There is also no area (I assume by "area" you mean metro area or region) that is commonly defined as Maryland. Washington DC is part of the DC metropolitan area or "DMV," however it is in no way part of Maryland anymore than New York city is part of New Jersey.
I was simply pointing out a minor (albeit, comical) factual error that immediately made me question the legitimacy of the rest of the article.
First, I must immediately question the informativeness of anyone who thinks Washington DC is located in Maryland. Second, pointing out addresses of major AT&T PoPs is useless. Do carriers (still) mirror traffic to intelligence agencies? Most likely. However, this makes it sound like AT&T and the NSA have dedicated entire buildings for this purpose, which is ridiculous. Complete sensationalism.
I find it hard to believe that many would use SW RAID with Postgres in production, especially under load conditions that were tested for here. I have seen little hope for performant SW RAID on Linux in the past twenty years. It would be interesting to see the same tests run using stable HW RAID of some sort (preferably, with SSDs)
To me, it seems like this article is sensationalizing a practice most were aware of already. I suppose it is mildly interesting to highlight a bunch of locations where it may be happening, but certainly not breaking news.