On 2009-03-03 at 00:00 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Phil Pennock wrote: > > On 2009-03-02 at 18:36 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> Tony Finch wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Francisco Olarte Sanz wrote: > >>>> I think the point made by the original poster is valid, if you use a > >>>> encrypted unauthenticated connection you cannot just be sniffed, you > >>>> need to be subject to a MITM or similar attack. > >>> That's so difficult! > >> Yes, MITM is difficult. > > > > Bull. Go ahead and install dsniff, read the man-pages for the utilites > > that software provides. > > > > You're spewing forth crap and are too ignorant to realise it.
> The sorts of things dsniff can do is easily defeated by an "am I talking to > the same ident as last time" system like ssh uses. Please stop straw-manning the argument. "Same ident as last time" is not unauthenticated. -Phil
