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

Oh well,

[ColdWetDog]

At least it's running under Linux.

Re:Oh well,

[geoffspear]

"Free as in Freedom Fries."

Re:Oh well,

[Billosaur]

At least it's running under Linux.

This is one of those time you wish it were a Microsoft product...

oh, in that case...

[gEvil (beta)]

Oh. Well, since the NSA bought the software that it's using, then that makes everything okey with me... :-/

Re:Time enough

[LilWolf]

'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.

Anything that comes through , we can record

[McGiraf]

And the RIAA does not get a cent on royalties! shocking

In other new, the RIAA sue the NSA!

Re:Encryption? Why decrypt later?

[spun]

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.