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Ain't exactly clear what's happening here...
Like the stories about the secret room in the San Francisco office, something other than eavesdropping is going on here. As Dave Farber, at Carnegie Mellon said, "If I own the routers, I can put code in there to have them monitor for certain data." And anyone with the right passwords can control any of the routers on the Internet from his bedroom in the suburbs. The same is no doubt true for digital telephone communications, also. So what is the purpose of top secret, bulletproof rooms if not for eavesdropping? If all the incoming and outgoing lines pass through these little rooms, wouldn't it be possible for someone in those little, bulletproof rooms to shut off those lines? Just a thot...
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