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Re: Shimomura on BPF, NSA and Crypto
> >Tsutomu has lots of glib rhetoric about how he just builds tools and
> >they can be used for good or evil. This tool is custom-designed for
> >evil.
>
> Rubbish, it would allow me to do something I urgently need to do - measure the
> performance of the main internet links. This is presently very difficult to do
> since the berkley sockets provide no network performance information to the
> application layer.
[..]
The standard BPF does exactly what you want already. Can you say tcpdump?
I think some research is inorder before you go shooting off your mouth.
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