[IP] Details on AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into NSA Says EFF
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tom Vest <tvest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 8, 2006 2:48:20 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Details on AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into
NSA Says EFF
Hi Dave,
Given the increasing salience of such service blocking mechanisms,
your subscribers might be interested in the specific deal between
Narus and Shanghai Telecom:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/73391
It's also worth noting how hardware and services like this have
spawned countervailing technologies to obscure the identity/nature of
IP traffic flows, e.g.:
http://www.numetra.com/
Although Numetra now appears to be positioned to support third-party
content producers and aggregators who hope to remain independent from
access network owners, it seems likely that end user-oriented
products will also emerge to provide an alternative to passive
acquiescence to the enclosure of the Net.
The resulting arms race may be very good for hardware vendors, but
does not bode well for the security and stability of the Internet, IMO.
Tom
Tom Vest
PCH Research Program Manager
& Senior Analyst, Internet Economics & Policy
CAIDA: Cooperative Assn. for Internet Data Analysis
http://www.caida.org
On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:37 AM, David Farber wrote:
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From: steven cherry <steven@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 8, 2006 9:39:45 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Details on AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic
Into NSA Says EFF
At 5:41 PM -0400 4/7/06, David Farber wrote:
From: Ryan Singel <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 7, 2006 3:53:38 PM EDT
Dave, Mark Klein released a statement with details about what he
saw and
did at AT&T.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html
Dave,
Not much has been written about Narus, the company whose software
was used.
Their main products identify and block or bill for VoIP phone calls
made through the equipment of traditional telecom providers. They
have customers for this system in the Mideast, Asia, and South
America. We wrote about them last fall. <http://
www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1846>. They just signed a deal with
Shanghai Telecom Co this week, by the way.
Steven
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IEEE Spectrum, 3 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016
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