Re: frame question

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:27 PM 11/18/97 -0800, John Earl wrote:

-snip-

>I don't think I made my point clearly.  The traffic would not go to the end
>user, but rather could be interecepted by unscrupulous operators out on the
>net.  Someone with sniffing equipment could potentially intercept all
>traffic sent to his particular network segment.  But even if the ISP is
>hhonest, he may not be competent.  There are clever folks who know how to
>pitch a tent on someone else's  server and scan all traffic for the word
>'password'.  When they see it, they grab the series of packets around that
>word and store it for later use.   
>
>No, the net is not a place to be trusting.
>
>
>BTW,  anybody heard of the new 'cable-modems' that your cable TV operator
>could soon be offering?  As I understand it, these modems place you in a LAN
>with the cable-modem households in your neighborhood.  This means that some
>one with 'sniffing' software could potentially see all of the traffic that
>is headed to their vicinity.
>
>Kind of gives a whole new meaning to Neighborhood Watch eh?

Anyone remember 'rubbernecking'?

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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