[167913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Tue Dec 31 15:34:12 2013
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:33:52 +0100 (CET)
To: gwood83@gmail.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <CAOpC_m55wCpgGQpjnydcWuQ3+7DdCYGEQe-FGaFvXQOa=HvXhQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: ckossmey@cisco.com, fw@deneb.enyo.de, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The best response I've seen to all this hype and I completely agree with
> Scott:
>
> "Do ya think that you wouldn't also notice a drastic increase in outbound
> traffic to begin with? It's fun to watch all the hype and things like
> that, but to truly sit down and think about what it would actually take
> to make something like this happen, especially on a sustained and
> "unnoticed" basis, is just asinine.
A drastic increase, definitely. Smaller increases (say a couple of Mbps
on a link normally carrying 100 Mbps or more), doubtful.
It all depends on the volume of the information you're looking for.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
