On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:47, Gregory Malsack wrote: > p.s. I'm only familiar with a small amount of packet sniffers. They can > only sniff packets sent or received by the local network. they cannot sniff > packets sent or received from one remote network to another remote network. > Do you have one that can?
Anyone on the path can intercept. Many IAPs run transparent web proxies. My ISP could transparently divert web (or other) traffic to my machine through some web (or other) proxy and examine it. Almost certainly my IAP wouldn't, but who's to say he's cracker-proof? What about co-located machines he hosts but doesn't control? His netwrk topology might mean that they can sniff. I don't know what safeguards he has in place, or whether they work. Remember everyone thought Apache was pretty safe until recently, and then a vulnerability was discovered and reported. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: Unsolicited mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
