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Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System
pkbarbiedoll writes "The recent discovery of AT&T's monitoring program has raised more than a few eyebrows. While the class action suit filed by EFF is pending (as well as a seperate suit filed against the NSA filed by the ACLU), interested parties are taking the time to learn more about the scope of this massive invasion of privacy. Bewert examines the Narus architecture used by AT&T in their previously shadowed (and ongoing) collaboration with the NSA."
The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
That's 1192MB/s, not exactly what I'd call enough to monitor the entire innurnet in real time, which means somewhere along the way, AT+T must be doing some filtering, which is even sadder.
On the other hand, that's roughly 2 CD-sized full-length movies a second, so that's about 2 hours worth of pr0n per second, which means that it takes a stadium packed with 7200 naked NSA agents and a truck full of Kleenex tissues to check out all the videos in real-time...
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I couldn't find this software on sourceforge or freshmeat. It really troubles me that the US government is using proprietary software to violate our constitutional rights.
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Shouldn't the editors be able to fix this typo? The article is only a paragraph and might take an editor 5 seconds.
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[wetfeetl33t@localhost ~]$ traceroute www.slashdot.org | grep att.net
traceroute to www.slashdot.org (66.35.250.151), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
[wetfeetl33t@localhost ~]$
looks like I'm OK!
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