From: “Wei Dai” <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
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UTC Datetime: 1995-01-27 08:17:03 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 00:17:03 PST
From: "Wei Dai" <weidai@eskimo.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 00:17:03 PST
To: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Traffic monitoring (Was: Reordering, not Latency)
Message-ID: <199501270816.AA23846@mail.eskimo.com>
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eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes) wrote:
> If I were doing global Internet monitoring, I wouldn't be doing it
> in-band. Too much cooperation by the vendors required; too much
> discovery. Rather, I'd gain access to the trunks directly and do my
> own demodulation and decoding.
How would you get access to the trunks? Aren't they mostly optic
fibers now? 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. It would be much easier to install
sniffers on selected local networks (e.g., those containing
remailers or other entities you're interested in).
Wei Dai
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