On 5/17/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
The next obvious question could actually cause a knock on the door so I won't ask it.
I doubt the NSA cares about this list anymore (assuming they ever did). Back to the topic at hand, I'm sure they do policy updates via whatever channel they are recieving data. It's very common to just have a single out of band reporting/management link. And I'd be surpised if these servers had any type of internal/external storage, such as the suggested Storedge. They most likely boot off the network, so if the servers are grabbed, there is only the contents of ram to worry about, and I'm sure there are rather explosive safeguards against that. A side benefit of having the filesystem living on an nfs server somewhere is that the above mentioned policy updates could be as simple as changing a single file on the storage server, and having all the sniffing servers immediately updated. I'm sure there are customized local policies for each region, but there would be a set of shared common policy. Mike