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No. Its entire job is logging. Doing MITMs could very potentially lead to information leaking that shows surveillance is going on. Pretty much any switch a data
by Sanddancer 13y ago
No. Its entire job is logging. Doing MITMs could very potentially lead to information leaking that shows surveillance is going on. Pretty much any switch a datacenter's going to use has port mirroring, which allows for a passive, invisible tap of a server.
- justincormack 13y agoI do wonder if the NSA insists this functionality is there...
- Sanddancer 13y agoJust an unfortunate side effect. There are lots of legitimate uses for port mirroring in troubleshooting and monitoring a network, like intrusion detection and performance monitoring.
- griffordson 13y agoThis was probably the FBI. And if the data center's switch couldn't mirror the customer port (I can't imagine any data center would use a switch that couldn't - but it is within the realm of possibility), the investigating agency would probably provide a 1U switch along with the 2U server that could handle the mirroring and then they could force the data center to connect the customer through that switch instead.