[54292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Fri Dec 20 11:47:01 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:45:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200212201612.LAA20630@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David Lesher wrote:
>
> [This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared
> with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes
> will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?]
I read this in the paper this morning. The article is a summary of a summary
of a briefing, and contains contradictory statements, ranging from the
tracking of end-users web browsing (bad) to a clearing house to gather
real-time information of attacks in progress (which sounds like a good
idea to me).
I'm reserving judgement until there are some actual facts.
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