[163380] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Fri Jun 7 09:47:54 2013
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:47:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20130607132849.GR2380@leitl.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Approaches like
> http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
> obviously don't scale to small time operators. But if you can vaccuum up =
close
> to the core at full wire speed (and there is no reason to think you can't=
, since
> there are switches which deal with that) you don't have to deal with
> periphery that much.
Remember, there is no core. I say that half-jokingly.
Sniffing at the core will only net you a small set of potentially asymmetri=
cal traffic flow.=20
