Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, David Honig wrote:

> 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).
 
I find it difficult to believe that NAPs aren't using a switched
architecture, which should make this sort of thing much more difficult 
(barring ARP tricks).

-d

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