Incoming from Alvin Oga: > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, David Mandelberg wrote: > > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Isn't it generally accepted that black hats who get local access (ie., > > > a user login account) is _much_ worse than black hats who've been kept > > anybody and everybody has "local access" with or without permission > > > > out? Assuming black hat wants root, taking over a user's account is a > > > very big first step. > > that's trivial to do ... assuming you allow anybody to reboot a pc
Are you confusing "local access" with "physical access?" With the latter, all bets are off and any security you rely on on the running system is irrelevant. > sniffers: > http://linux-sec.net/Sniffers > > i like pfilt.pl ... anybody, non-techies can use it and sniff http://www.linux-sec.net/Sniffer/Scripts/royans.net/pfilt.pl Your link points at wireless sniffers? But thanks for that. Interesting site. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]