RE: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd) err, make that (fud)

2002-12-24 Thread Al Rowland
Just another opportunity to grab some funding. The two major events at our local facility the past year have been the result of drivers taking out major power poles on the street adjacent to the facility. One even ended up in the parking lot. UPS/gen sets worked as planned so little impact on

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:26:16 EST, batz said: You will miss script kids that bounce all over their compromised machines around the world, but even if you collected all the information about those attacks, there is little value in tracking them down anyway. The interjurisdictional

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-23 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:26:16 EST, batz said: The interjurisdictional administrative hell makes it more cost effective to just lock down your network than to re-enact The Cuckoos Egg. Unfortunately, this is (or should be) part of the threat model. What makes

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-23 Thread batz
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Regarding CenterTrack: : :its not that they misinterpretted, its that its NOT EVER been implemented. I am content to believe you. However, that CenterTrack has never been implemented does not mean that a system for collecting IP session data

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-23 Thread Richard Forno
Also, this threat can be mitigated more cost effectively through system and network hardening than by expanding the monitoring infrastructure to be able to handle such a difficult to codify threat (in any general sense). I agree totally. However, it's unglamorous, and not as sexy of an

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-22 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, batz wrote: Lets say you have a an IDS load balancer sitting on a GigE span port with a few sensors watching everything go by. If an alert is triggered, a script is executed which goes out to the router closest to the origin of the session and initiates the overlaid

Re: Fw: Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-21 Thread blitz
BRAVO FRED You encapsulated this well...now its up to us. The bureaucracy is bound to forge ahead in establishing the police-state, we do NOT have to help them... At 14:30 12/20/02 -0800, you wrote: I have restrained from saying this so far but... I told you so. When I attended the

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-21 Thread chuck goolsbee
Also, if you want to monitor massive amounts of data (something people say can't be done easily) you just demux it using a device like those at www.toplayer.com, or http://www.radware.com/content/products/fire.asp . Both solutions are adequate for breaking up massive amounts of data. I could

White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread David Lesher
[This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/technology/20MONI.html?pagewanted=printposition=top December 20, 2002

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David Lesher wrote: [This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?] I read this in the paper this morning. The article is a summary

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
The -real- challenge is to create a system -capable- of monitoring the entire internet Today there isn't enough horsepower to accomplish such a thing, except by exception to the rule, rather than the rule. In analogy: We can adjust the flows of the Hoover (remember him ?) Damn, we cannot

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:12:43AM -0500, David Lesher wrote: [This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?]

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Freud, your slip is showing ? :P Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Richard Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In analogy: We can adjust the flows of the Hoover (remember him ?) Damn, we cannot however stop to count damn is an expletive, dam is a noun. :)

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:12:43AM -0500, David Lesher wrote: But it is good for a laugh. Or a cry. :) :* :( FWIW, One American Government Legislative body, all full of itself, had all but passed an act requiring the value of PI to be legislated to 3,

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:31:39 MST, Wayne E. Bouchard said: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:12:43AM -0500, David Lesher wrote: [This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes will you need to make? What will they

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread batz
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David Lesher wrote: :[This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared :with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes :will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?] There is a really easy way to accomplish this, and it has been

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
Cough! On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, batz wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David Lesher wrote: :[This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared :with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes :will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?] There is a

Fw: Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Fred Heutte
I have restrained from saying this so far but... I told you so. When I attended the Oakland NANOG in October 2001, I had just returned from Washington DC. The trip originally was for my brother's wedding but I extended it for some personal lobbying on the so-called USA PATRIOT bill as it

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Cough! Sure, or they could ask carriers to tap lines for them silently... in fact they can do that today with a court order. Nope. USA Patriot Act, No Court Order Needed. :( Civil Liberties for Tax Refunds, Takers ? :P A COO I know is actually

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread blitz
Methinks they'll try the Russian SORM model. Since this country is hell bent on establishing a police-state, this seems logical. Why not use the one thats been developed? http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/ :[This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared :with the router

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread batz
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: :Cough! Heh. Bless you. ;) :This is incorrect, this isn't implemented, its not implementable, current :routing gear doesn't gre tunnel a) fast enough, b) at all HOWEVER, :juniper will allow you to copy packets on an interface in 5.5 or

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, batz wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: :Cough! Heh. Bless you. ;) its this damned changing weather :) :This is incorrect, this isn't implemented, its not implementable, current :routing gear doesn't gre tunnel a) fast enough, b) at all