[83201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sun Aug 7 11:33:46 2005
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:33:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <42F5552F.7020603@tony.li>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Tony Li wrote:
>
> > Practically, what this means is that the government will be asking broa=
dband providers
> > - as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband
> > communications =96 to build insecure backdoors into their networks,
> > imperiling the privacy and security of citizens on the Internet.
>
>
> 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"?
>
hopefully sticking some header on that packet to determine input
interface/lsp as well. hopefully also not dumping to a physical interface,
but to a 'vpn' interface so truckrolls to kalamazoo don't have to happen
each time 'elterrorista' moves from internet cafe' to internet cafe'
please :)
no real 'security' implications in the copy though, sure. (assuming
appropriate controls on config changes exist, and controls on the exit
point/storage of the copied data.
