Narus STA 6400 Equiptment Revealing - Wiretapping

[heartofthesiskiyou]

As a Network Engineer and a service provider for the past 13 years I offer the following analisis and a recommendation.

I believe Reps. in congress need some education on the extent on the wiretapping controversy. Following the equiptment is quite revealing.

The fact that a direct link fiber optics line was installed in the AT&T facility in San Fransisco is what got me looking into this situation. That much bandwidth indicated a much greater intrution then the government was indicating in it's public statements. According to Mark Klien the AT&T whistle blower the fiber optics line was split and sent into a separate room set up for NSA. The line was attached to a Narus STA 6400. Both the fiber optics line and the Narus filtering equiptment indicate a huge amount of data is being filtered. It is my opinion, the amount of e-mails and other data are huge and far exceed the 3500 individuals admitted to under the Patriot Act disclosure provisions.

This could also lend credence to the contention by AOL and other ISP's that they have not been involved in blocking various e-mail addresses and in some cases URL's being widly reported over the previous two years. This equiptment could accomplish this blocking activity by virtue of it's position siting right at the routing source in AT&T facilities. There is a ton of things they can do situated at the switching teminals hqs.

My recommendation is for congress get the information of the equiptment discribed in the Narus sites listed below and get experts to interperate the capabilities of this equiptment and bandwidth involved. I'm sure these experts will provide the same analisis that this program far exceeds what the administration has revealed thus far and would indicate that censure is far less than what is needed. This is Impeachable activity.

Narus site
http://narus.com/products/index.html
http://narus.com/products/secure.html
http://narus.com/products/intercept.html
http://narus.com/products/discover.html

Other analisis
http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/spy_machine_cap.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/8/14724/28476
http://legalpad.wordpress.com/2006/04/06/wiretap/

[peacetheonlyway]

1. bravo, good post..

excellent post.. very thorough.. thanks.

I'm myself a telco geek. But wonder if when things get technical, politicians eyes gloss over.

How can we simplify it for the average idiot senator?

[heartofthesiskiyou]

2. They NEED experts to interpret it

For them. That's why I think the Fiengold censure motion is going so slow. They don't realise the scale of things going on. This is really big.

[peacetheonlyway]

3. i wish that were the only reason

i think censure moving slowly because democrats are
a. uneducated as you pointed out but also
b. spineless jellyfish that think they have a plan when in fact, there is no plan...

also, remember, experts can be hired from GOP side to rebut every fact the other expert says and most judges will just toss a coin.. I work as an expert witness in patent litigation, the person who wins is usually the one who buys the most lawyers..


GOP has never had problems buying lawyers or lying about things....

[Supersedeas]

4. pretty much

[GregW]

5. What's really interesting about Internet wiretapping...

Is that the first commercially viable text search company, Verity, came into existance through an NSA/CIA contract to search large volumes of text (new feeds). Makes me wonder if they haven't been secretly cooking something for the past 16 years, or whether they just hook up a large Google box.