[7475] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Jul 13 12:53:22 2000
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:13:30 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>,
"P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, cryptography@c2.net,
Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@listserv.aol.com>
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David Honig wrote:
>
> At 10:58 AM 7/12/00 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >>There's been speculation about NSA black boxes in such facilities for
> >>years. The FBI, however, isn't quite as "above the law" as the NSA likes
>
> For $500/monthly you too can have a box in various NAPs. You can
> run your NIC in Bill Clinton mode, e.g., to measure certain
> things about traffic. I know of a corporation doing this (they
> are only interested in infrastructure traffic, not content).
Dunno about you, but we use switches for colo - which rather defeats
this plan, no?
Cheers,
Ben.
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