17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Andrew Lowenstern says:
Is this even technically possible? That is, wholesale monitoring of disparate portions of the net from a single access point.
Sure -- you need to have packet forwarders installed all over the place, but thats easy to do -- there are commercial network monitoring products that will do the job for you. In that sense, you can't do it from a single access point.
To monitor the entire remailer network an attacker would have to setup packet sniffers upstream from each and every portion of the Net that contained a remailer, wouldn't they?
Largely, although they could be smart about how they did it. Perry