Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

[David Honig]

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).