Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
by judge2020 on Monday June 25, 2018 @03:02PM
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Wouldn't it be easy to traceroute between the CDN and your server, or the CDN and your house to see if it hits servers that WHOIS to at&t?
Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
by jlgaddis on Monday June 25, 2018 @04:08PM
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From a network engineering perspective, it's pretty easy not to decrement the TTL (keeping devices from "appearing" in a traceroute).
Hell, this is pretty much the norm where MPLS is concerned. Your packet may hop through a dozen routers along its way without showing up in a traceroute -- you just see it go in one side (then it goes through a dozen routers) and you see it come out the other side.
Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
by coldtea on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:27AM
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>Wouldn't it be easy to traceroute between the CDN and your server, or the CDN and your house to see if it hits servers that WHOIS to at&t?
Wouldn't be trivial for any other telco (whether foreign or domestic) than at&t to tap the data and lie about it too?
And it doesn't have to show up in the traceroute (they could mirror the traffic, etc)
Yes, but they could also be lying about it.