[58603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Iraqis work to restore Internet service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue May 27 07:10:20 2003
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 04:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030527035645.00bbcbf0@216.82.101.6>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> In many countries which will not admit visitors with an Israeli
> stamp in their passport (Egypt, Syria, etc), the most popular method
> of internet cafe uplink is VSAT. One of the largest mideast VSAT
> carriers is Gilat - http://www.gilat.com , an Israeli company. Do
> the Syrians know their bits are flowing through routers in Tel
> Aviv? I would hope they don't care, or have good crypto, but the
> potential for snooping of traffic does exist.
Uh, to the best of my knowledge, that's the sole purpose of Gilat.
Subsidized transport in exchange for packet-inspection. But don't laugh,
as an American, it's your tax dollars at work.
-Bill
