We don't really need to ask individual engineers. A lot of this stuff is public knowledge and documented, as required by law, it just seems like nobody has bot

We don't really need to ask individual engineers. A lot of this stuff is public knowledge and documented, as required by law, it just seems like nobody has bothered looking. http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/05_11_nsa-scty-compliance.html http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/05_11_n... http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/routers/C4-040R-02.pdf http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/routers/C4-040R-02.pdf There are protocols designed and published as part of the security infrastructure. Whether these protocols are used for good or evil, is really up to who has setup and configured the hardware. The bottom line is that you can't Luddite your way back into the golden age of the Internet. In fact, in a lot of ways, the NSA is just cooping technology that businesses and black hats were already using. Do you think that only the NSA knows how to do deep packet scanning or protocol pattern matching?