Philip K Dickhead's Journal: All About NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine

Blogger bewert has an in-depth investigation of the Narus 64 equipment used in the alleged AT&T/NSA wiretapping, and its manufacturer. Specifically, this equipment was the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000... The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second. Are they capturing and analysing every bit of message traffic containing "Naurus ST-6400"?

Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Don't you think? I'd think they'd want something with multiple interfaces in the 10-20 TBit range...but then we've never had the most technically able people in AT&T or the NSA, have we?

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[RM6f9]

I wouldn't want to bet my place against the wall or my Guantanamo time-share on that - there's no way of knowing what they might have that hasn't been leaked...

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

My point was that the volumes are getting rather impressive. Even at a mere 664 Mbit, there's no way for anybody to examine that record manually- they're going to HAVE to use relatively inefficient data mining techniques that a mere substitution code would effectively defeat.

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[RM6f9]

Oh, I see. My concern is the relative lack of uproar all of these encroachments are causing - figure as long as the entertainment opiates keep flowing, the sheeple will allow themselves to be herded onto a treadmill spinning faster and faster for the further gain of an "elite" over-class - I love my country, it's the government I fear - are the sheeple worth saving, or should those of us who see what's coming just tuck and run?

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Oh, I see. My concern is the relative lack of uproar all of these encroachments are causing - figure as long as the entertainment opiates keep flowing, the sheeple will allow themselves to be herded onto a treadmill spinning faster and faster for the further gain of an "elite" over-class - I love my country, it's the government I fear - are the sheeple worth saving, or should those of us who see what's coming just tuck and run?

I think we should offer the sheeple the one real choice that the major politica

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[gmhowell]

I only want to see electric power increase if we are going to do away with archaic and stupid laws regarding smokestack emissions. Instead of mandating equipment (ie, scrubbers), mandate allowed levels of output, similar to how they kinda do it on cars. Who cares whether PEPCO uses scrubbers or magical incantations, as long as the crap spewing into the air is clean.

Oh, and kick those people from Massachusetts in the nuts. Windfarms off the coast. Deal with it.

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

We wouldn't need smokestack emissions OR windfarms off the coast if we'd just build grid-negative homes and factories and stores to begin with. As in, generate their own electricity locally, tying into the grid only when ambient energy won't suffice, and even then timed to tie in during non-peak hours. It's doable with today's technology, and the only down side is a few fat cats in the energy industry lose out on new customers and eventually lose their market entirely.

But both the Republicans and the Dem

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[gmhowell]

I'm sure the development out there is like it is over here: mcmansions with onerous home owners' covenants. I can't put a solar panel on my roof unless it is on the backside, which conveniently faces north. Plenty of similar situations.

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Actually, only a small portion is, and thanks to Measure 37, even that is going away (in that if the Homeowner's Assoc. makes a rule after you buy your house to cover new tech, you can sue them under Measure 37 and they will either have to grant you a waiver to the rule or pay you the reduced value of your home). Personally, if I had a homeowner's association like that, I'd campaign for a leadership position based on the fact that the current homeowners association has rules that help the terrorists (by no

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[gmhowell]

I'd campaign for a leadership position based on the fact that the current homeowners association has rules that help the terrorists

Ahh, good campaign slogan.

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Sure would make a more interesting election than The color of the local streetlight poles [oregonlive.com].

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[RM6f9]

I'll go with you right up until the idea of a "third party": I run every election year as an *absolute* independent - my first year eligible and campaigning, I know I received one vote for POTUS for me - my own (2000) - in 2004, if everyone who responded positively to my exit poll told the truth, I had 10 votes +. In 2008, I'm hoping for 100, and by the time I'm the age Reagan was when *he* won, I'll have a grass-roots plurality (assuming we're all still alive and haven't been conquered by Switzerland or s

Re:Rather underpowered given the size of the pipe

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I personally said $5, and had a campaign budget- but it was a campaign budget based on Amtrak subsidies, which were cut to $0 in the 2004 budget.