[83192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Sun Aug 7 01:22:59 2005
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:22:29 -0700
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200508070407.j7747kOq005607@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>I'm sorry, but this is simply an unsupportable statement. What is
>>required of routers is that the provider be able to configure the device
>>to make copies of certain packets to a monitoring port. Assuming that
>>the monitoring port is duly managed, how does this qualify as "insecure"?
>
>
> It qualifies as "insecure" because if that rather dubious assumption fails to
> be true, you have a big problem.
If any port on a router is not duly managed, you have a big problem.
Tony
