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Re: FBI is at it again
From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz () idirect com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:56:00 -0500
Unfortunately, just because we know how difficult it is to provide a solution to this problem, does not mean that everyone subscribes to it.
One
should not discount the argument made based purely on the source, especially since recently a few very "interesting" articles showed up in a number of publications, including current issue of Forbes. The author,
whose
name escapes me at this time, is under the ill-belief that since the internet traffic does flow though hubs, it would be possible to intercept
it
and store it on the computers located in those hubs. It is more likely
that
a white paper describing the issues arising from attempts to intercept and store that much data would do better than an argument about unreliability of the source. Alex
It's obvious that many people spreading this information (no matter how credible the source, have little knowledge of how much data flows through such hubs). If I remember correctly, AOL-TW for example does over 100 Terabits of traffic every day. No storage system in the world (that I know of) can write at 10 GB/sec (not forgetting that at OC-192 speeds we are writing 36 Terabytes of Data per hour). Not even the most prestigious government agencies have the ability to sort through petabytes of data per day.
Current thread:
- FBI is at it again Larry Diffey (Oct 26)
- Re: FBI is at it again Brian (Oct 26)
- Re: FBI is at it again Adam Herscher (Oct 27)
- RE: FBI is at it again Tom Thomas (Oct 27)
- Re: FBI is at it again batz (Oct 27)
- Re: FBI is at it again Lucy E. Lynch (Oct 28)
- RE: FBI is at it again Daniel Golding (Oct 29)
- Re: FBI is at it again Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- RE: FBI is at it again alex (Oct 29)
- Re: FBI is at it again Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 29)
- Re: FBI is at it again Vadim Antonov (Oct 29)
- RE: FBI is at it again Paul Wouters (Oct 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FBI is at it again herb (Oct 26)
- Re: FBI is at it again Steven M. Bellovin (Oct 29)
- Re: FBI is at it again Gordon Cook (Oct 29)
- Re: FBI is at it again Christian Kuhtz (Oct 29)