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Comments on: UK spooks offered 10Gig wire-speed processor

Good morning GCHQ... 

Posted Wednesday 25th April 2007 15:45 GMT

...I know you can hear me. B*STARDS!

Attack vector 

Posted Wednesday 25th April 2007 15:51 GMT

Although it's nothing new, this looks like a good attack vector as they become more common. Many high-level protocol implementations have had holes in them exploited; the complexity needed to do DPI promises plenty of compromised DPI devices and DoS attacks.