On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 05:55:02AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Now, *mirroring* to a couple of choke points, sure, but then you ave > transit and other associated costs (you gotta haul the data to all of the > collectors).
I was thinking about a box at each incoming/outgoing point with a NIC in passive mode. Filtered traffic is a tiny fraction of total, and should be easy to send to a central location (I presume because it's feasible to process and store world's entire relevant text traffic in a pretty small central facility, no one is going to bother with true distributed processing; though filtering at the periphery already qualifies as such). Otoh, presence of a number of such boxes is goign to need a gag order, and a really major ISP. Small shops are too informal to be able to hide something like that. > Just not feasible to do it quietly. Note, I said quietly. Hardware required for tapping major arteries is going to need modified high-end routers (filtering of cloned traffic), no? I don't see how this is going to be a limit on organization of the size of NSA & consorts. -- 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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