FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services

Sun Aug 7 05:22:29 UTC 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