Yo William! On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 19:42:16 -0500 William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:43 PM, George Herbert > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If push came to shove and minor legalities were not restraining me, > > I recall (without checking) your domain's emails come to your home, > > and your DSL or cable line is sniffable, so any of the CA who email > > URL validators out could be trivially temporarily spoofed (until > > you read your email and responded) by tapping your data lines. BGP > > games to snarf your traffic are another venue, possibly not yet > > even covered by wiretap laws that I know of, though I'm not > > currently an ISP in a position to personally do that to you. > > And none of this describes an extraordinary effort? The quote you're > trying to refute was, "suffer such attacks only with extraordinary > difficulty on the part of the attacker." I would say it is pretty easy, and I have caught people doing it many times. All a hacker needs to do is get a sniffer near your email traffic. Then they can grab any challange emails sent to any of you domain contacts. Pretty trvial to do in a coffee shop environment. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588
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