On: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

[judge2020]

Wouldn't it be easy to traceroute between the CDN and your server, or the CDN and your house to see if it hits servers that WHOIS to at&t?

[jlgaddis → judge2020]

From a network engineering perspective, it's pretty easy not to decrement the TTL (keeping devices from "appearing" in a traceroute).

Hell, this is pretty much the norm where MPLS is concerned. Your packet may hop through a dozen routers along its way without showing up in a traceroute -- you just see it go in one side (then it goes through a dozen routers) and you see it come out the other side.

[coldtea → judge2020]

>Wouldn't it be easy to traceroute between the CDN and your server, or the CDN and your house to see if it hits servers that WHOIS to at&t?

Wouldn't be trivial for any other telco (whether foreign or domestic) than at&t to tap the data and lie about it too?

And it doesn't have to show up in the traceroute (they could mirror the traffic, etc)