On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:20 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > >> In <pan.2011.01.22.18.58...@gmail.com>, Camaleón wrote:
>> >I agree. Wired networks are not that exposed to these attacks. >> >> Not entirely true. On a hubbed network, putting your network card into >> promiscuous mode will allow you do see other's HTTP traffic and >> "sidejack" them. Even on a switched network, there may be a way to >> fool the switch into giving you enough data from the HTTP traffic to >> preform a "sidejack". > > I know very little about enterprise networking, but are hubs still in > actual use today? Last time I had to make a "fine-grained" debugging operation over my network using wireshark I had to "restore-to-life" an old (and dusty) hub that came with our DSL device... back in 2000 :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.24.19.43...@gmail.com
