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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FBI is at it again
> 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.
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