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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by judge2020 on Monday June 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#17394812)
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?
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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by jlgaddis on Monday June 25, 2018 @04:08PM (#17395381)
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.

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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by coldtea on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:27AM (#17398567)
>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)

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