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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.'"
The error page of "Nothing to see here. Move Along." that showed up when first clicking on the comments link was hilarious.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Oh. Well, since the NSA bought the software that it's using, then that makes everything okey with me... :-/
This guy's the limit!
'Anything that comes through (an IP network), we can record'
I'm sure they are just using it to get free porn.
1 voice in a sea of voices
'Anything that comes through (an IP network), we can record'
Not to worry. The RIAA will soon sue them for being able to record illegally downloaded songs. Problem solved.
*I don't watch American Idol. Really!
So you mean that if you take a IP packet stream and analyze the headers you can reconstruct the communications??? When did this madness start? What kind of voodoo magic are they using up there?
And the RIAA does not get a cent on royalties! shocking
In other new, the RIAA sue the NSA!
Great! So, now all we need is news that the UK is surveilling all of your network traffic and US citizens can enjoy the same benefits!
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
Hey, if the NSA can do it without warrants, why can't we?
It's Bad Form to drop missile on viable states, even when they disagree with you.
Nuking France does sounds tempting, though.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
No, you are both wrong, you have no idea how far down the rabbit hole we already are. These disks contain tiny nanomachines that embed themselves in your skin and change your DNA so that you will only bear Republican children. Of course, the Republicans aren't the Final Masters here, they are nothing more than patsies of the Rand Corporation, who are of course controlled by the Boy Scouts of America, who are under the dominion of the Reverse Vampires. We're through the looking glass, people.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Sweet! I never put a return address on anything. In your face NSA !!
-- "It's not stalking if you're married!" My Wife.