He claims his sources have confirmed that the NSA has contracted with an unnamed private company to develop the software needed to capture Internet data of interest to the agency. Madsen says the NSA may also be monitoring traffic at network access points, the large Internet gateways operated by regional and long-distance service providers. Madsen claims the NSA has deals with Microsoft, Lotus, and Netscape to prevent anonymous email. That's the thing.
Intelligent routers send stuff any which way.