From: Sean Donelan (no email)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 10:36:55 EST
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Gordon Cook wrote:
> While KC is obviously best person to answer, my understanding is that with
> the disapearence of ATT inside of SBC and the disappearance of MCIUUNET
> inside of Verizon all their traffic that CAIDA used to get was pulled. CAIDA
> gets it no longer because now it is proprietary. IMO a bad situation
The pendelum swings back and forth. At the moment, companies have been
getting bashed when they make an effort to make data available and then
researchers spend their efforts to de-anonymize the data.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9826608-46.html
Companies still spend a lot of money and hire research companies to
analyze the data privately; its just not worth the hassle of releasing
it publically or giving it to academics for free.
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