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From: "Mark Seiden" <mis@seiden.com>
but the ability to assemble intelligence out of taps on providers' internal connections would require reverse engineering the ever changing protocols of all of those providers. and at least at one of the providers named, where i worked on security and abuse, it was hard for us, ourselves, to quickly mash up data from various internal services and lines of business that were almost completely siloed -- data typically wasn't exposed widely and stayed within a particular server or data center absent a logged in session by the user.
Jamie makes an excellent point here: Least Privilege should apply within carrier's cores and data centers, just as much as within corporate and organizational ones. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274