[IP] Details on AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into NSA Says EFF

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tom Vest <tvest@eyeconomics.com>
Date: April 8, 2006 2:48:20 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
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@panix.com>
> Date: April 8, 2006 9:39:45 AM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net
> 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@ryansingel.net>
> > 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
>
> --
>    Steven Cherry, +1 212-419-7566
>    Senior Associate Editor
>    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Park Ave,  New York, NY 10016
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