From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 05:57:01 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: re: Wei Dei: monitoring
Message-ID: <199501271356.NAA12303@GPO.iol.ie>
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>How would you get access to the trunks?

Not that difficult for an intelligence agency.

>Aren't they mostly optic fibers now?

Can be tapped.

>Also, since Internet traffic is growing at a geometric
rate, the probability of anyone or any organization having the
capacity to monitor and process ALL of Internet traffic should be
very small and decreasing.

That's what super-computers are for (besides chaos modelling).


-rkm


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