From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:49:05 +0800
To: hallam@w3.org
Subject: Re: Shimomura on BPF, NSA and Crypto
In-Reply-To: <9601131747.AA11926@zorch.w3.org>
Message-ID: <199601131828.FAA01537@suburbia.net>
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> >Tsutomu has lots of glib rhetoric about how he just builds tools and
> >they can be used for good or evil.  This tool is custom-designed for
> >evil.  
> 
> Rubbish, it would allow me to do something I urgently need to do - measure the 
> performance of the main internet links. This is presently very difficult to do 
> since the berkley sockets provide no network performance information to the 
> application layer.
[..]

The standard BPF does exactly what you want already. Can you say tcpdump?
I think some research is inorder before you go shooting off your mouth.

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