Right, because the Apple and Linux party packs each included a tin of Beluga caviar and bottle of Dom - damn Microsoft for being so cheap and lame!

Honestly, how difficult is it to provide a reference to backup this claim. Not a single citation or screen shot. The poster is messing around with hacked DLLs to patch a 'legit' copy of an application? There's a lot of credibility in that statement. It's unfortunate, but Slashdot is quickly becoming the National Enquirer of the technology community.

Not necessarily true. Most likely they would promiscuously sniff all traffic using a port mirror as opposed to a gateway inspection of the flow of traffic. The use of a port mirror would not introduce any latency to the network and they would only be bound by their storage capacity as the size of their logs would grow quite rapidly.