[AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

[Paul Wallace]

Malcolm Turnbull was on the telly this morning stating unequivocally that they do not plan to mandate the collection & retention of “web pages’ rather “just the IP address’.

I’m struggling to accept this because it would be valueless intel to some degree, in that a single IP often leads you to a web host that’s hosting many websites via the same IP

If that host was hosting MANY websites it would difficult to figure out precisely which site the person of interest was browsing!

Watch for slippage in relation to that particular claim

-P






From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Phil Pierotti
Sent: Friday, 8 August 2014 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

Clearly if you need source and destination of every packet then sFlow just doesn’t cut the mustard.

Also as clear (to us, if not them) if you’re NOT collecting said ‘meta data’ on every single packet then why bother capturing any?

Or are you hoping to capture every N-th terrorist plot, kiddie-porn-ographer or other bogey-man of the moment?

Phil Pierotti
Senior Network Engineer
day3 Solutions

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