Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

[Ben Laurie]

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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