The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool?

Wired News is reporting that the equipment found in the "secret" NSA room at AT&T wasn't some elaborate device designed by Big Brother. Rather, it is a commercially available network-analysis product that any company could acquire. From the article: "'Anything that comes through (an IP network), we can record,' says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, California, company. 'We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their VOIP calls.'"

Comments

What George taketh, Bill giveth back?

[Bob 4knee]

So, all of those folks emailing around .doc files instead of pdfs and text are helping preserve our freedoms by making more bits for these guys to sift through and parse?

Re:Spying

[LilGuy]

It is always true in any case. With each inch we give up they'll take a mile. Haven't you noticed the trend? It's just one thing after another. Quite frankly I'm not afraid of any terrorists but our own government. What with all the scandals, lies, propaganda, secrets, renditions, concentration camps, wiretapping, crowd control devices... who the hell else can match that? A friggen terrorist is nothing in comparison.

As a side note, I don't believe the 'terrorism' was real. At least it wasn't real in the sense that anyone in power on 9/11 at least knew it was coming and directly enabled it to happen.