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Re: ABC News mentions Echelon
by Marshall Eubanks 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

> >I just heard this from a commentator on ABC News: > >[US Intelligence] has the ability to "Sweep up all communication going >around the world in a very broad way." > They must be referring to echelon. What's interesting is that ABC news is saying that they have echolon like capabilities in the Continental US. This is much rumoured but always denied and probably technically illegal. Regards Marshall Eubanks >There are currently "millions and millions of phone calls in this vacuum >cleaner." > >"They will be sorting through all of the communications going through phone >numbers that they have an interest in." > >The reporter also mentioned that the officials have to be careful not to >intercept calls of US Citizens. >---------------------------------- > >ObOperationalAndRelevant Link: >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010906/wr/mideast_usa_internet_dc_3.html > >ObAlsoOperationallyRelevant: >http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001303964,00.html > > > > Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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Re: Operational Content only please.
by George William Herbert 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

Todd Suiter <todd(a)s4r.com> wrote: >Also, the long term repercussions of today's events may well be >staggering for this group, and our industries as a whole. [...] Just a few off the top of my head: 1) Physical risk to facilities This is a nightmare, most of our facilities *suck*. Run an intrusion scenario against anything but the absolute primo colo facilities and you walk right in the door, and the primo ones are vulnerable to mild levels of professional active threat (rocket, bomb, wall breach, etc). There is too much money in some of those buildings to treat this as lazily as we do now. 2) Assured physically separate routing links The current situation is unacceptable. We need to know where our circuits physically go, and when that changes, and have real options for physical routing. 3) Disaster recovery plans for facilities dropped into a hole in the ground My current contract had just deferred a major expansion on this issue. They're in a building clearly identifyable on the San Francisco skyline. I expect this to be a major reassessment starting tomorrow. You, too... 4) Echelon / snooping / crypto privacy issues What sorts of likely issues will we see if there is enhanced government monitoring mandated as a result of this? 5) Services provider load-handling I was chatting with someone at cnn.com throughout the morning. They had to roll literally dozens and dozens of additional servers into service when the hits started rolling in after the incident was reported first. It looks like everyone was able to hold on in both the network and the source provider side... but this needs a careful look for lessons learned. -george william herbert gherbert(a)retro.com

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Re: More CNN reports...
by Barb Dijker 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

At 04:21 PM 9/12/01 +1000, Terence wrote: >Sun Microsystems occupied 2 whole floors of one tower of the WTC. An announcement went out to Sun employees in Colorado that all Sun employees in WTC are accounted for and safe. ...Barb

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List of International Flights Diverted to Canada
by Randy Neals 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

Transport Canada Government Web Site http://www.tc.gc.ca/en/CrisisinUS_diverted.htm

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RE: Carnivore
by Roeland Meyer 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

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Re: 32 Old Slip AC Outage and 60 Hudson Verizon failure
by Robert Boyle 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

---- Original Message ---- From: alex(a)nac.net To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: 32 Old Slip AC Outage and 60 Hudson Verizon failure Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:13:47 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) >As for our 32 Old Slip location, located in Focal (8th Fl, I think), >we >have power once again. > >dial1.fnj> ver >System uptime is 4 hours 30 minutes At GlobalNAPs on the 4th floor at 32 Old Slip, power has been restored via generator, but all Verizon circuits in the building are down. Our point to point T1 lines are down and I am guessing that all IMT trunks into CLECs in the building are also down as a result. Our GlobalNAPs PRIs are up, but we get a fast busy dialing in. gnapsny1> sho isdn D Ports State L1 L2 Change init Up Down -- ------- ------------- ------- ----- ----- ----- 0 S0-S22 UP Active 8:06 2 2 1 1 S24-S46 UP Active 8:06 3 2 2 core1-gnapsny uptime is 8 hours, 4 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at 07:09:24 UTC Wed Sep 12 2001

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RE: 811 10th avenue
by Matt Zito 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: Roy [mailto:garlic@garlic.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:48 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: 811 10th avenue > > > > Anyone know the status of the AT&T facility at 811 10th Avenue? > > > We colo in that facility, and we terminate a couple of circuits there. We haven't had any problems/outages, although I don't know if they're letting most people in. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew J. Zito Systems Engineer Register.com, Inc., 11th Floor, 575 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 Ph: 212-798-9205 PGP Key Fingerprint: 4E AC E1 0B BE DD 7D BC D2 06 B2 B0 BF 55 68 99

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811 10th avenue
by Roy 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

Anyone know the status of the AT&T facility at 811 10th Avenue?

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WTC tenants - floor by floor
by Hank Nussbacher 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

http://www.costargroup.com/wtc/NorthTowerTenants.PDF http://www.costargroup.com/wtc/SouthTowerTenants.pdf -Hank

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Re: ABC News mentions Echelon
by John Neiberger 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

| | --- Marshall Eubanks <tme(a)21rst-century.com> wrote: | > | > They must be referring to echelon. What's interesting | > is that ABC news is saying that they have echolon | > like capabilities in the Continental US. | > | > This is much rumoured but always denied and probably | > technically illegal. | | Hogwash. The US laws prevent only the US Agency from spying on it's | citizens. There is nothing that prevents the other Echelon partners (I | beleive they are Austrailia, Britian, and New Zealand) from doing the | spying and sharing the results. | | -Jim P. The US doesn't even bother with all of that; they directly monitor domestic communications of American citizens as a matter of routine. Sad, but true. I know this because I know someone who used to be involved with the project. He denies that it is called Echelon but he does not deny that it exists. John _______________________________________________________ http://inbox.excite.com

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