the_crowbar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:None (Score 1) 517

by the_crowbar on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @07:47AM (#26143687) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

The problem with these NAS boxes is the processor is only able to push about 25mb/sec. The whole point of the rsync protocol is to trade network bandwidth for CPU. If your CPU is already taxed then what do you think rsync is going to do? Rsync will crawl on any of these SOHO NAS boxes.

Submission + - AT&T Engineer describing NSA syping architectu 1

Submitted by juanfe on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @12:49PM

juanfe writes: The Washington Post is reporting on the whistleblowing by a former AT&T network engineer who describes how and where AT&T's facilitation of NSA wiretapping was set up. This has been discussed on Slashdot before, but it's a particularly well-explained description for the lay person of why a fiber splitter allowing NSA to sift in all of AT&T's US backhaul traffic (including UUNet, Sprint and GlobalCrossing) is a bad thing.

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