Want to know if the NSA is monitoring your outbound ip? As it turns out, there is a simple way to find out in DOS.
See, it turns out that the way the NSA monitors select IP's is that they have an agreement with at&t since att provides much of the back-bone infrastructure of the web. The NSA has a room set up in a undisclosed ATT building where they have a few switches and routers set up with their monitoring programs and such.
Courtesy of indymedia.
So basically, they are monitoring and copying your packets.
Now, onto the fun part...
to see if your traffic is passing through one of these such rooms, fire up a dos window. (start>run>cmd)
type in, "tracert www.google.com"
wait for it to finish, and observe the 'hops' (the lines) and look for any containing "att" in them
What you are looking for is: "sffca.ip.att.net"
If you have this in one of your hops, then you are probably on the NSA's poop-list....
See, it turns out that the way the NSA monitors select IP's is that they have an agreement with at&t since att provides much of the back-bone infrastructure of the web. The NSA has a room set up in a undisclosed ATT building where they have a few switches and routers set up with their monitoring programs and such.
AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center ... what he saw and learnt prompted him to call at the Electronic Frontier Foundation unannounced in late January 2005 with documents in hand. The EFF was already preparing a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly turning over customer phone-record data to the NSA -- relying on reporting from the Los Angeles Times about AT&T giving the NSA access to a phone-record database with 1.88 trillion entries. More here at Wired.
The internet surveillance program covers domestic traffic not only just international traffic.Most International traffic enters the US through only 3 points Florida New York and San Francisco. Marcus notes that the AT&T spy rooms are "in far more locations than would be required to catch the majority of international traffic"
The system is capable of looking at content, not just addresses. The configuration described in the Klein documents -- presumably the Narus software in particular -- "exists primarily to conduct sophisticated rule-based analysis of content", Marcus concludes.
The system looks at all traffic not just AT&T but those transiting AT&T networks.
Courtesy of indymedia.
So basically, they are monitoring and copying your packets.
Now, onto the fun part...
to see if your traffic is passing through one of these such rooms, fire up a dos window. (start>run>cmd)
type in, "tracert www.google.com"
wait for it to finish, and observe the 'hops' (the lines) and look for any containing "att" in them
What you are looking for is: "sffca.ip.att.net"
If you have this in one of your hops, then you are probably on the NSA's poop-list....