[164470] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Jul 12 14:52:30 2013
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:51:04 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130711190233.CBC3EDFD@m0005311.ppops.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
What I find particularly troubling is this image of the govt paying
for these surveillances. The price seemed to be from around $325 for
an install plus $10 to $750 install and $500/mo.
Now, let's not drop right into the easy and trite "don't they deserve
to be reimbursed" right off. Sure, they/we do.
But was this reimbursement, or profitable?
The troubling image that goes like this:
ISP VP #1: Any revenue ideas?
ISP VP #2: I hear XYZ is being paid pretty good money for surveillances.
ISP VP #1: How much?
#2: Word is Verizon is getting $775/install and $500/mo.
#1: How many of these are they handling?
#2: I don't know, maybe millions of them?
#1: Millions? You're talking half a bilion a month?
#2: Well, that's VZ.
#1: Still...what's the COGS?
#2: Not much, sunk cost mostly, some netadmin labor, might need a
few extra hands to form a team if it scales up, billing, sales,
some PR and contract management.
#1: Wow, how do we get a piece of this?
#2: Let me make a few calls and get back to you...
Accurate? Plausible? Nonsense?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRICE_OF_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-10-06-07-53
or
http://tinyurl.com/kj2pelb
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