The IE7 installer has already been already cracked and genuine advantage bypassed when a XP build of IE7 was 'leaked'. Essentially the method was to decompress the installer with something like WinRAR, replace a dll and away you went.
Doesn't this mean WinRAR is in violation of the DMCA?
If you use one of those serial "generator" programs for XP which actually go out and validate the key at Microsoft as a "manufactured key" (not that I have, but I have seen it done;), it will only reply with keys that have been registered as actually being put on a label or box. They probably randomize it a lot so you can't do this. Plus they probably have reserved areas for when someone tries to do this so they can start shipping emergency numbers. Worst case, they will just allow all copies to validate until they change the scheme, and keep track of duplicates, etc. Then they can install some sort of update later on that will report your IP and stuff so they can have the lawyers come for their check.
Having that automatic update thing in place is pretty scary really. If Bill and Co. weren't such lambs compared to, I don't know, the Bush administration, I'd start to get worried. I mean, how hard would it be for them to put whatever they want on your machine. That's obvious of course.
There's also the element of surprise. People get behind the weirdest shit sometimes, such as All Your Base are Belong to Us or Snakes on a Plane. I think the reason for these outbreaks of madness is the inherent need of the human mind to lash out at the increasing structure of today's lifestyle based on data. The human mind knows that this goes against nature, where everything tends toward chaos (at least during this portion of the cycle).
Norbert Wiener said a few things about this (from The Human Use of Human Beings):
"Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. As we have said, nature's statistical tendency to disorder, the tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems, is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics. We as human beings, are not isolated systems. Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise."
"Life is an island here and now in a dying world. The process by which we living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is known as homeostasis. We can continue to live in the very special environment which we carry forward with us until we begin to decay more quickly than we reconstitute ourselves. Then we die. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves."
Of course, Douglas Adams based a lot of the ideas in that book on The Human Use of Humans (which was much in vogue when he was at school in Cambridge).
Standards are the key. I work in the mortgage banking business and they are trying to build standards for data as there are really only a limited number of relevant fields and everyone in the industry uses the same sort of format. This is largely due to extensive government regulation and oversight (which has held the industry back, of course). There are thousands of fields, but it's not a huge deal to make a big list of them. What it will do is help everyone do business more efficiently because banking is all about sending and receiving various information back and forth (money is just a message, in cybernetic terms), and then storing it for later use. When two companies merge, it's easy to move everything over because the namespace is the same.
Of course, we already have standards, such as the English language and stuff like that, but it's so ambiguous, difficult for a computer to understand probably. They should just take a 64 or 128 bit hash and index every word, every object, etc.
Maybe Tim Berners-Lee and his semantic web will make something happen. That's the real problem. When you have to write like 30 or 40 layers of SQL queries to get what you want, and then to get a decent report you have to spend 100 hours in crystal or make compromises, and in the end all you have is more data. What is the MEANING of the data? I think a lot of the knowledge of humanity is stored in words and books and not indexed. Most db data is just statistics, which are useless;)
What if you could "explain" what "The apple tree is 15 feet tall" means using a structured language?
Then, it would be pretty trival to search for 15 foot tall things, apple trees that are taller than a man, etc.
Also, it is rumored that Douglas Adams had something to do with the puzzle, since he was friends with the band and actually came up with the name for the album.
This reminds me of another interesting public puzzle, the "Publius Enigma", which was/is a puzzle connected with Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell and some anonymous postings made to the newsgroup alt.music.pink-floyd coinciding with their 1994 tour of the same name.
Numerous, interesting sites are out there, and people have been trying to solve the thing for over 12 years.
Quite interesting, especially if you like the music and want to add a "new dimension".
The river of innovation is already there, they just need to float shit on it. Here they are, in order of coming first, not importance:
#1, 64-bit desktop PC's and high-end ultra-high resolution monitors
The shift we are currently going through is going to be as big as when the 386 and win3x came out. A torrent, a landslide of innovation is about to occur. Included with that innovation will be a massive decrease in hardware prices for given specs. 4GB of RAM will be low end, because with 64 bit addressing, you can have, what 2.3 MILLION TERABYTES of address space. Imagine having the entire internet on your desktop, every movie ever filmed, every song ever recorded, every book ever written, etc. in RAM. Along with a sizeable ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SPEECH RECOGNITION that learns as you talk with others in the room, or that can listen to your voicemails FOR YOU, know who they are from and forward the call or hell, have a conversation with the caller. OCR that you just hold the book up to the camera and it instantly reads with 99.999 percent accuracy. Word Processing where WYS really is WYG, with montior DPI getting closer and closer to paper/printer resolution. The thing about it is, you can just throw it all in there and have some sort of filesystem to retrieve it and you can do all these things. You don't need 64 bits of general purpose addressing (you can use page frames and crap) but it will be the last time they need to redesign the processor bus (probably).
Of course, with this newfound power in O(n) counting space, you need a faster processor to move the data, find it, etc.
#2: NANOTECHNOLOGY
I've said it before, everyone knows it. This is what people are going to need to start developing software for. Very small storage means faster processors, more density, less power requirements, and more.
#3: PC in the Home as an Appliance.
Not a new idea. But for the first time in history there are enough of us young people with money to make this home pc/appliance idea come to fruition. Video/Audio/Telcom convergence with one home network, one home server and a bunch of terminals/microphones/whatever.
Jesus, I sound like fucking Cringley.
Seriously, I think 64 bit is going to be the big deal. These computers need to be more human, and MS is the company that has been doing that all along. Windows has a personality. You can see it start to do certain things and you learn over time not to piss it off by doing certain things. It's not unlike having a wife, actually. Of course, linux fanboys will never have one of those either. HAHA, BURN! Seriously though, the keyboard is not going away, but the computer is going to enter more of our life and it's going to be through our television, stereo and phone, the classic interfaces.
But the key meeting took place July 3rd, 1958, when the Air Force brought the space visitor to the White House for an interview with President Eisenhower. And Ike said, "hey look, give us your technology, we'll give you all the cow lips you want."
Yeah, I'm not saying there's a conspiracy, but there are facts out there that are commonly glossed over. It's interesting that so much of our critical security infrastructure is based on Israeli technology. What really makes it interesting is that a lot of the companies are run by Israelis and that they are former members of the IDF (of course, I think it's mandatory for all Israelis to serve in the defense force).
It's just interesting that given the recent debate about the Dubai ports deal and how we'd be giving another country the ability to control security somewhat, and how that was shot down. Yet when it comes to all this other stuff, it's basically another country that provides all the security. I mean, if the US were ever to change it's pro-Israel policy (not saying they would, or there's a reason to), they effectively couldn't. It seems like a funny spot to put yourself in as a country....
Then again, it's a global society now and country really isn't as important as it once was. I am just concerned about the religious aspects, which is what really causes problems... I don't want to insinuate anything about Israelis really, I think they are good people. But it seems odd to entrust a lot of your most important infrastructure to citizens of another country and then not tell anyone, especially in this "Post 9-11 World"............
From your link: While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal.
I didn't realize this was possible (duh) but:
Some fiber optic splitters are readily available. Run half of the signal to your sniffer adapter, the other to the switch. No one will ever know because it's one way.
Who knows what is possible with a budget of... oh wait, that's classified, although we do know it was over 70 Million in 1972 ($319,277,570.21 of today's dollars or 1277 of the EFF's 1999 machines.)
AT&T Bell Atlantic BellSouth Cable and Wireless Global One GTE IBM MCI Pacific Bell QUEST Sprint US West
Since then, let's see. Recently AT&T bought SBC, which was Southwestern Bell and Pac Bell.
Ok, then there's Verizon, which was GTE and Bell Atlantic and who's now buying MCI.
Global One was Spint and France Telcom and Deutsch Telkom, and is now France Telcom. No longer exists.
Sprint was the long distance arm of GTE plus US Telecom and Sprint US. They TRIED to merge with MCI/Worldcom in 1999 but it was terminated by the justice department. They are one of the largest cellphone companies.
So, who still exists? Here's the most current list (from Wikipedia) AOL Transit Data Network (ATDN) AT&T Global Crossing (GX) Level 3 Verizon Business Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Qwest SAVVIS Sprint Nextel Corporation
There are some more mergers happening so this list should grow shorter. I think it might be interests of the network if a consortium of tier 2 providers is formed to make small peering arrangements to link small short hop networks cross country (the way it's supposed to be: USE THE POWER OF IP!).
I think we are also still mostly safe because of internet 2 which is pretty closed off from the main hubs. Of course, it's trivial to tap internet2 also. Wireless is the only other option and that's even LESS secure.
There's too much to talk about, but I think we should start calling it the Media-Military-Industrial Complex. The media is on the bandwagon now.
I wanted to comment on the AT&T Thing. Narus is company that was started in America by some ex-Israeli Defense Forces people (unit 8200 alumni) who wanted to bring their Semantic monitoring software to America to sell to big telecom. This was always security software and Israel has always been very very far ahead in that realm (because of the "realities" there. There are a lot of these companies that were formed by ex-Defense people, specificially unit 8200. Checkpoint systems is another fine example.
Cautious estimates indicate that in the past few years, unit 8200 veterans have set up some 30 to 40 high-tech companies, including 5 to 10 that were floated on Wall Street. This correlation between serving in the intelligence unit 8200 and starting successful high-tech companies is not coincidental: Many of the technologies in use around the world and developed in Israel were originally military technologies and were developed and improved by unit veterans.
Anyway, the original goal was to make a bundle of money selling this stuff. Why? Well, it's useful for a number of reasons. Because the internet has been "redesigned" around business and commerce (and the needs of the consumer), the nature of the network has changed. From the original decentralized network (which did use leased phone lines from Ma Bell, so it's not really decentralized from THEM), now there are huge "tier 1" trunks that carry the majority of the transcontenental data. The idea in the late ninties of "IP Network Convergence" or Voice Data Video etc. all coming out of one pipe was the big hot one. Of course, how do you make money when people are only paying for their ISP connection. Enter "usage-based billing".
The idea behind the Narus system was to create a system to track IP traffic and transactions semantically (because you still didn't know where the traffic might be coming from) and create a sort of database of records like they talked about in TFA. Like the old fashioned telcom "call records", these would record a source and target and the data transmitted. The data would only be stored if "relevant", ie: part of a usage-based service or today, "interesting" ie having actionable words or phrases, etc. Of course, then the thing in New York happened and all of a sudden there was a LOT of funding available for people who had the stuff in place or ready to go and a lot of the old red tape was struck down. Remember "karnivore?" Cohen and his more spooky cohorts made a few calls to 8200 friends (IDF and M*s*ad were working "closely" with the administration) and due to the no-bid process (not unlike that of the Iraq contractors and the Katrina and new york ground zero cleanup operations) they got the job in a sec.
Of course, AT&T is going along because they need support for the big merger with SBC (putting most of the baby bells back together. AT&T was once the largest company on earth and they are set to do it again. Guess what, voice calls are still big business and how do you think your cell phone calls go from tower to tower. You guessed it, land lines..............AT&T has always been an evil company.
Anyway, Narus is the key to everything now. The company was the one pushing for convergence from the beginning and now it's possible to monitor all traffic because it's all on IP. How convenient. Even an anonymizing proxy such as ToR cannot provide the protection you need if one of your packets happens to stray across one or more Narus points. It's a simple matter to monitor the packets and put together not only
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Actually, just use your camera phone to take a picture of it--thus avoiding any showdown with bitchy, unwashed store employees.
Tip: Fry's moves more models than anyone so you can get a solid source of serials by going once a week.
Tip #2: A simple swipe of the sharpie will prevent the eventual customer from seeing the last few digits of their key.
I've never done this, but they will be in my novel.
The IE7 installer has already been already cracked and genuine advantage bypassed when a XP build of IE7 was 'leaked'. Essentially the method was to decompress the installer with something like WinRAR, replace a dll and away you went.
Doesn't this mean WinRAR is in violation of the DMCA?
If you use one of those serial "generator" programs for XP which actually go out and validate the key at Microsoft as a "manufactured key" (not that I have, but I have seen it done ;), it will only reply with keys that have been registered as actually being put on a label or box. They probably randomize it a lot so you can't do this. Plus they probably have reserved areas for when someone tries to do this so they can start shipping emergency numbers. Worst case, they will just allow all copies to validate until they change the scheme, and keep track of duplicates, etc. Then they can install some sort of update later on that will report your IP and stuff so they can have the lawyers come for their check.
Having that automatic update thing in place is pretty scary really. If Bill and Co. weren't such lambs compared to, I don't know, the Bush administration, I'd start to get worried. I mean, how hard would it be for them to put whatever they want on your machine. That's obvious of course.
Actually, since there's two public keys in Windows (see NSAKEY), you could replace one with your own and then "sign" your own .dlls.
Cheers,
Dave
OLD NEWS, this has been around for years!
AMAZING!
Yeah, the fact that the machine it was made on is called a "Pole Smoother" probably proves GP wrong..
There's also the element of surprise. People get behind the weirdest shit sometimes, such as All Your Base are Belong to Us or Snakes on a Plane. I think the reason for these outbreaks of madness is the inherent need of the human mind to lash out at the increasing structure of today's lifestyle based on data. The human mind knows that this goes against nature, where everything tends toward chaos (at least during this portion of the cycle).
Norbert Wiener said a few things about this (from The Human Use of Human Beings):
"Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. As we have said, nature's statistical tendency to disorder, the tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems, is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics. We as human beings, are not isolated systems. Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise."
"Life is an island here and now in a dying world. The process by which we living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is known as homeostasis. We can continue to live in the very special environment which we carry forward with us until we begin to decay more quickly than we reconstitute ourselves. Then we die. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves."
Of course, Douglas Adams based a lot of the ideas in that book on The Human Use of Humans (which was much in vogue when he was at school in Cambridge).
Legally change your name to John Smith and switch social security numbers once a month. That will teach them.
Standards are the key. I work in the mortgage banking business and they are trying to build standards for data as there are really only a limited number of relevant fields and everyone in the industry uses the same sort of format. This is largely due to extensive government regulation and oversight (which has held the industry back, of course). There are thousands of fields, but it's not a huge deal to make a big list of them. What it will do is help everyone do business more efficiently because banking is all about sending and receiving various information back and forth (money is just a message, in cybernetic terms), and then storing it for later use. When two companies merge, it's easy to move everything over because the namespace is the same.
Of course, we already have standards, such as the English language and stuff like that, but it's so ambiguous, difficult for a computer to understand probably. They should just take a 64 or 128 bit hash and index every word, every object, etc.
Maybe Tim Berners-Lee and his semantic web will make something happen. That's the real problem. When you have to write like 30 or 40 layers of SQL queries to get what you want, and then to get a decent report you have to spend 100 hours in crystal or make compromises, and in the end all you have is more data. What is the MEANING of the data? I think a lot of the knowledge of humanity is stored in words and books and not indexed. Most db data is just statistics, which are useless ;)
What if you could "explain" what "The apple tree is 15 feet tall" means using a structured language?
Then, it would be pretty trival to search for 15 foot tall things, apple trees that are taller than a man, etc.
Also, it is rumored that Douglas Adams had something to do with the puzzle, since he was friends with the band and actually came up with the name for the album.
This reminds me of another interesting public puzzle, the "Publius Enigma", which was/is a puzzle connected with Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell and some anonymous postings made to the newsgroup alt.music.pink-floyd coinciding with their 1994 tour of the same name.
Numerous, interesting sites are out there, and people have been trying to solve the thing for over 12 years.
Quite interesting, especially if you like the music and want to add a "new dimension".
Hah, what about IT, the SEGWAY? Apple can have a whole parking lot full of them, activated by employee badge.
Put your money where your mouth was, Steve.
The river of innovation is already there, they just need to float shit on it. Here they are, in order of coming first, not importance:
#1, 64-bit desktop PC's and high-end ultra-high resolution monitors
The shift we are currently going through is going to be as big as when the 386 and win3x came out. A torrent, a landslide of innovation is about to occur. Included with that innovation will be a massive decrease in hardware prices for given specs. 4GB of RAM will be low end, because with 64 bit addressing, you can have, what 2.3 MILLION TERABYTES of address space. Imagine having the entire internet on your desktop, every movie ever filmed, every song ever recorded, every book ever written, etc. in RAM. Along with a sizeable ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SPEECH RECOGNITION that learns as you talk with others in the room, or that can listen to your voicemails FOR YOU, know who they are from and forward the call or hell, have a conversation with the caller. OCR that you just hold the book up to the camera and it instantly reads with 99.999 percent accuracy. Word Processing where WYS really is WYG, with montior DPI getting closer and closer to paper/printer resolution. The thing about it is, you can just throw it all in there and have some sort of filesystem to retrieve it and you can do all these things. You don't need 64 bits of general purpose addressing (you can use page frames and crap) but it will be the last time they need to redesign the processor bus (probably).
Of course, with this newfound power in O(n) counting space, you need a faster processor to move the data, find it, etc.
#2: NANOTECHNOLOGY
I've said it before, everyone knows it. This is what people are going to need to start developing software for. Very small storage means faster processors, more density, less power requirements, and more.
#3: PC in the Home as an Appliance.
Not a new idea. But for the first time in history there are enough of us young people with money to make this home pc/appliance idea come to fruition. Video/Audio/Telcom convergence with one home network, one home server and a bunch of terminals/microphones/whatever.
Jesus, I sound like fucking Cringley.
Seriously, I think 64 bit is going to be the big deal. These computers need to be more human, and MS is the company that has been doing that all along. Windows has a personality. You can see it start to do certain things and you learn over time not to piss it off by doing certain things. It's not unlike having a wife, actually. Of course, linux fanboys will never have one of those either. HAHA, BURN! Seriously though, the keyboard is not going away, but the computer is going to enter more of our life and it's going to be through our television, stereo and phone, the classic interfaces.
But the key meeting took place July 3rd, 1958, when the Air Force brought the space visitor to the White House for an interview with President Eisenhower. And Ike said, "hey look, give us your technology, we'll give you all the cow lips you want."
Interestingly, he could have used the "Magic 8-Ball" to increase the strength of his encryption. I'm not sure how, but it would be funny.
Won't you gentlemen have a Pepsi?
Yeah, I'm not saying there's a conspiracy, but there are facts out there that are commonly glossed over. It's interesting that so much of our critical security infrastructure is based on Israeli technology. What really makes it interesting is that a lot of the companies are run by Israelis and that they are former members of the IDF (of course, I think it's mandatory for all Israelis to serve in the defense force).
It's just interesting that given the recent debate about the Dubai ports deal and how we'd be giving another country the ability to control security somewhat, and how that was shot down. Yet when it comes to all this other stuff, it's basically another country that provides all the security. I mean, if the US were ever to change it's pro-Israel policy (not saying they would, or there's a reason to), they effectively couldn't. It seems like a funny spot to put yourself in as a country....
Then again, it's a global society now and country really isn't as important as it once was. I am just concerned about the religious aspects, which is what really causes problems... I don't want to insinuate anything about Israelis really, I think they are good people. But it seems odd to entrust a lot of your most important infrastructure to citizens of another country and then not tell anyone, especially in this "Post 9-11 World"............
From your link: While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal.
I didn't realize this was possible (duh) but:
Some fiber optic splitters are readily available. Run half of the signal to your sniffer adapter, the other to the switch. No one will ever know because it's one way.
See Unit 8200, Check Point, and this article.
Ho hum, they've been doing it since the mid 70's. Everyone knows about this.
Now, if they were able to brute-force decrypt 1000 IPSec connections in real time - this would be something to worry about.
DES cracked in less than 3 days (circa 1999 public knowledge technology).
One of many IPSEC crackers, IKEcrack.
Who knows what is possible with a budget of... oh wait, that's classified, although we do know it was over 70 Million in 1972 ($319,277,570.21 of today's dollars or 1277 of the EFF's 1999 machines.)
I'd say they can.
Here's the "Old" list:
List of Major Providers
AT&T
Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
Cable and Wireless
Global One
GTE
IBM
MCI
Pacific Bell
QUEST
Sprint
US West
Since then, let's see. Recently AT&T bought SBC, which was Southwestern Bell and Pac Bell.
Ok, then there's Verizon, which was GTE and Bell Atlantic and who's now buying MCI.
Global One was Spint and France Telcom and Deutsch Telkom, and is now France Telcom. No longer exists.
Sprint was the long distance arm of GTE plus US Telecom and Sprint US. They TRIED to merge with MCI/Worldcom in 1999 but it was terminated by the justice department. They are one of the largest cellphone companies.
So, who still exists? Here's the most current list (from Wikipedia)
AOL Transit Data Network (ATDN)
AT&T
Global Crossing (GX)
Level 3
Verizon Business
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
Qwest
SAVVIS
Sprint Nextel Corporation
There are some more mergers happening so this list should grow shorter. I think it might be interests of the network if a consortium of tier 2 providers is formed to make small peering arrangements to link small short hop networks cross country (the way it's supposed to be: USE THE POWER OF IP!).
I think we are also still mostly safe because of internet 2 which is pretty closed off from the main hubs. Of course, it's trivial to tap internet2 also. Wireless is the only other option and that's even LESS secure.
Break out the PGP keys and the tinfoil hats.
Ten gigs a second is peanuts, but obviously there's more than one of these things ... and presumably the next generation will be even faster.
;)
That also isn't taking into account the obvious: they have more than one of these boxes..
I wanted to comment on the AT&T Thing. Narus is company that was started in America by some ex-Israeli Defense Forces people (unit 8200 alumni) who wanted to bring their Semantic monitoring software to America to sell to big telecom. This was always security software and Israel has always been very very far ahead in that realm (because of the "realities" there. There are a lot of these companies that were formed by ex-Defense people, specificially unit 8200. Checkpoint systems is another fine example.
From this article (direct link:
Anyway, the original goal was to make a bundle of money selling this stuff. Why? Well, it's useful for a number of reasons. Because the internet has been "redesigned" around business and commerce (and the needs of the consumer), the nature of the network has changed. From the original decentralized network (which did use leased phone lines from Ma Bell, so it's not really decentralized from THEM), now there are huge "tier 1" trunks that carry the majority of the transcontenental data. The idea in the late ninties of "IP Network Convergence" or Voice Data Video etc. all coming out of one pipe was the big hot one. Of course, how do you make money when people are only paying for their ISP connection. Enter "usage-based billing".
The idea behind the Narus system was to create a system to track IP traffic and transactions semantically (because you still didn't know where the traffic might be coming from) and create a sort of database of records like they talked about in TFA. Like the old fashioned telcom "call records", these would record a source and target and the data transmitted. The data would only be stored if "relevant", ie: part of a usage-based service or today, "interesting" ie having actionable words or phrases, etc. Of course, then the thing in New York happened and all of a sudden there was a LOT of funding available for people who had the stuff in place or ready to go and a lot of the old red tape was struck down. Remember "karnivore?" Cohen and his more spooky cohorts made a few calls to 8200 friends (IDF and M*s*ad were working "closely" with the administration) and due to the no-bid process (not unlike that of the Iraq contractors and the Katrina and new york ground zero cleanup operations) they got the job in a sec.
Of course, AT&T is going along because they need support for the big merger with SBC (putting most of the baby bells back together. AT&T was once the largest company on earth and they are set to do it again. Guess what, voice calls are still big business and how do you think your cell phone calls go from tower to tower. You guessed it, land lines..............AT&T has always been an evil company.
Anyway, Narus is the key to everything now. The company was the one pushing for convergence from the beginning and now it's possible to monitor all traffic because it's all on IP. How convenient. Even an anonymizing proxy such as ToR cannot provide the protection you need if one of your packets happens to stray across one or more Narus points. It's a simple matter to monitor the packets and put together not only
Editor: Welp, this is going on the front page.