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Re: Newsnight Crypto Bazaar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Thu Mar 18 17:55:33 1999
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
To: clive@demon.net
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:25:15 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Q8KSHaEeVU82Ewht@on-the-train.demon.co.uk> from "Clive D.W. Feather" at Mar 18, 99 06:26:38 pm
> >Duncan Campbell gave his usual factual, unemotive account.
> >Good man Dunc.
> >
> >However, no one seems to listen to what he says.
> >
> > - the NSA routinely intercept email traffic by diverting it
> > through Maryland or NY.
>
> Obviously "no one" includes you, because that is *not* what he said. He
> said that:
> - NSA monitor traffic at 9 IXPs;
> - Internet traffic on routes that you wouldn't expect (e.g. UK to
> Greece) go through the USA.
>
Just curious, could there be some enlightenment on
the statement; "NSA monitor traffic at 9 IXPs".
I'd like to know which particular IXPs are implicated
here and, if anyone cares to speculate, why.
I find this an interesting statement as I run an IXP and
am pretty intimate with the design/construction of most
of the popular public IXPs.
--bill
