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Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Designfor In ternet Services

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Sun Aug 07 01:23:37 2005 
>>I'm sorry, but this is simply an unsupportable statement.  What is
>>required of routers is that the provider be able to configure the device
>>to make copies of certain packets to a monitoring port.  Assuming that
>>the monitoring port is duly managed, how does this qualify as "insecure"?
> 
> 
> It qualifies as "insecure" because if that rather dubious assumption fails to
> be true, you have a big problem.


If any port on a router is not duly managed, you have a big problem.

Tony