On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:23:08PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator > at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided > the delay, the system required regeneration, like modern DRAMs.
At GBit WAN stores a whole packet in the fibre as optical delay line, with 10 GBit it's true even for a LAN (some 30 bits/m). That interpretation techically allows to wiretap anything. Of course they're doing that anyway, regardless of what local laws says, so even not much twisting of words required. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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