On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:18 PM, john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > On 20 October 2014 14:13, Worik Stanton <worik.stan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes all traffic of a country can be analysed, fairly close to real time. >> With some basic statistics, smart sampling and a dedicated team >> crafting cleaver algorithms... That is what those big budgets are for! > > Can throw in some real-world experience here - worked on a project in > Malaysia that was doing near-realtime (no more than 5 minutes lag) > analytics of cellular and data traffic on that country's largest cellular > network. The kit fit in less than five 42U racks, including dev/test kit, > and four of those racks were an inefficiently-used Netezza appliance. > > It wasn't even that expensive - private industry budget.
There's analysis, and there's analysis. None of this is particularly interesting without knowledge of what depth of analysis was being done. I doubt they were looking for steganographic transport encoding in audio and image data, for example. And I said before, using WiFi cells, they simply won't have access to all the traffic without snooping all the WiFi cells. And they would have a hard time dealing with USBstickNet traffic. high-latency, but massive bandwidth :-) Ian
