Well - it is really impossible to say. Definitely it grants an extreme amount of information gathering capability. So that is the most likely effect desired.
But on the extreme end, if say Level3.net (largest internet backbone in the country) uses SNMP to manage their network devices (likely), then they could literally break the Internet on a nationwide scale.
And what, in your opinion, was the desired effect?
Well - it is really impossible to say. Definitely it grants an extreme amount of information gathering capability. So that is the most likely effect desired.
But on the extreme end, if say Level3.net (largest internet backbone in the country) uses SNMP to manage their network devices (likely), then they could literally break the Internet on a nationwide scale.