You should probably use a non-transmitting NIC or a unidirectional ethernet cable ;)
-- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 > On Jul 18, 2014, at 13:15, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > HA! > > When I worked for the fire alarm company I was just starting to play with > Linux and managed to get it working on an old laptop. I was also just > starting to learn about networking and found a pretty cool packet sniffer. I > installed said sniffer, plugged it into the corporate network in one of the > classrooms, sniffed around a little but didn't see anything exciting so put > the laptop back in my office (the video editing suite really) and hung around > talking with some friends in the classroom. > About 15 minutes go by and a guy from corporate IT shows up counting ports. > He wouldn't say what he was up to but I had a pretty good idea. Later I found > a pallet of those laptops which the company was throwing away. I made up a > bunch of linux systems that would boot and sniff packets on a timer. I set > them to lead the IT guys on a merry chase around our 1 million square foot > facility. Hilarity ensued. Especially when he got to the one on the catwalk > over the panel baking oven on the manufacturing floor. They put network drops > in the darnedest places... > > -Curt > > > ________________________________ > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mitch Haley <mi...@mitchellhaley.com>; Mercedes Discussion List > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 1:03 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Anyone for Dropbox? > > > Head of corporate security at Kohler was a neighbor of mine. Former Air Force > MP with the typical control and superiority complexes that many of these guys > have (he was short, too.) > > One time when he got loaded at a neighborhood party he started mouthing off > about the keywords they had set up in the email system to flag messages for > potential thefts, subversion, corporate espionage, etc. > > I made note of every one. > > The next week at work I got with a bunch of fellow workers and shared the > list. We then went out of our way to incorporate every one of the words in > every email we possibly could. > > After this guy's wife divorced him a year or two later, she told me in > passing that one of his pet projects had gone down in flames because it took > too many resources (people) to manage. Turns out it was his email > filtering.... > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
