Tapping is not evil, unless it is done without a warrant ...

gigamon.com — This enhanced podcast talks about **taping** technology as applied to passive monitoring of networks, comparing the benefits and shortcomings with SPAN port or mirroring of Layer-2 switches. Once a network is tapped, replica traffic can be used for security surveillance, VoIP performance analysis, or even lawful intercept (i.e., wiretapping). Aug 28, 2006 View in Crawl 4