[154720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S. spy agencies ... email for cybersecurity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Jul 9 23:18:02 2012
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:47:19 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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I think what Gen.Alexander said and what the reporter missed out is
that they're interested in malware traffic flows, bot C&Cs etc, rather
than smtp received headers
> He said the information the government was seeking was the Internet
> address where an email containing malicious software originated and
> where it traveled to, not the content of the email.
--srs
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:16 AM, William Allen Simpson
<william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somebody needs to give them a clue-by-four. The private sector
> already has the "Internet address where an email ... originated";
> it's already in the Received lines. We don't need to be informed
> about it, we already inform each other about it.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
