Lucky Green wrote:
> In
> particular, the "black box" monitoring device installed at the ISP level
> appears to be in the process of becoming the implementation of choice.
> Pioneered by Russia, this design has rapidly been adopted by the UK, and now
> is used in the US.
This may be a nit, but there are those of us who hope it is a nit of
significance: unlike Russia or the US, the black box monitoring device
is still a twinkle in the eye of the spooks in the UK. RIP is not yet
law, and when and if it is, it may not include provision for such a box.
> Few designs require less day-to-day
> involvement by the ISP than hooking a black box sniffer to the ISP's
> internal network.
Except that most large ISPs have an infrastructure that does not lend
itself nicely to such a simple-minded attack (except, probably, for
email traffic handled by their own mail servers - which may, perversely,
be a good thing).
Cheers,
Ben.
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