I guess the good thing in all this is that it's what you'd expect if you took Carnivore from the 90s and threw a ton of intelligent people and pervasive fibre a

I guess the good thing in all this is that it's what you'd expect if you took Carnivore from the 90s and threw a ton of intelligent people and pervasive fibre access at it. There doesn't seem to be anything breakthrough, like "holy shit they can do that" kind of stuff. Now yes, the scope is amazing. And I was getting this technical excitement just reading the system. So many questions! Like, how do they distribute jobs fairly or deal with resource over use? What stops some dumbass oper from submitting a super-expensive query? How do they manage all this stuff? It's pretty damn neat. I'm wondering what the impact of TLS is on all this. Cause it seems like that'd sort of destroy this system, eh? Edit: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2116191-unofficial-xks-user-guide.html#document/p1 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2116191-unofficial-x... - Interesting how they are really explicit how USSID 18 stops them from doing stuff. Like they give the example of finding a phone number without a country code. Not allowed! Unless you combine it with something that'd limit it to foreign countries. But they note it's not a 100% solution.