All About NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400

Larry Ellison (CEO Oracle), "The privacy you are so fond of is mostly an illusion."

Scott McNealy (Sun Micro Systems), "You have no privacy.   Get over it."

"How powerful is this Narus' machine? It carries about 10 gigabits of data per second.  Ten billion bits per second, monitored in real-time. That is stunning. This is one damned powerful machine, one of the most powerful I've ever heard of in 25 years in IT.

And what does it monitor while looking at this 10 billion bits of IP data per second? First lets take a look at what the network model is, the OSI model of seven layers. NarusInsight focuses on two layers: number four, the transport layer, built on standards like TCP and UDP, the physical building blocks of internet data traffic, and number seven, the application layer, built on standards like HTTP and FTP, which are dependent on the application using them, i.e. Internet Explorer, Kazaa, Skype, etc. It monitors 10 billion bits per second at level four and 2500 million bits per second at level seven. For reference, the 256K DSL line I am using equals .24 million bits per second. So one NarusInsight machine can look at 10,000 million DSL lines at once in great detail. That is a pretty damn big number. This is some really serious hardware with equally serious software."

"You really wonder why BushCo doesn't want to talk about this stuff? It's the biggest invasion of privacy in history by several orders of magnitude."

Full story: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/8/14724/28476

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