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Re:New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop ... by Terretta on Sunday June 30, 2013 @11:37AM (#5966095)
Even the cheapest managed switches have a traffic mirroring port setting, no "prism" required.
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Re:New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop ... by mpyne on Sunday June 30, 2013 @11:45AM (#5966131)
Even if we assume that PRISM still needs to know what exactly to do with that inbound traffic, which it will need metadata for.

Of course maybe it's possible to setup a session and then just forward all traffic from a given company subnet IP:port to a PRSIM case file, but that's getting back into impl details for me.

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