Gady explains that the Brazilian government is motivated by popular distrust of U.S. government spying rather than a genuine desire for secure data networks. He argues that the construction of the cable is "meant to assuage a deeply suspicious general public within the South American country of US preponderance of power in the international economy, and smacks of technological nationalism — one of the many unintended consequences of the Snowden revelations." 

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