Re: Debian and LDAP?
On 10 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091913190.23995-100000@spindle.sickfuck.org>,
> Ian Eure <ieure@sickfuck.org> wrote:
> >i don't completely agree with your security argument, since switched
> >networks are getting more and more popular, as well as transport-level
> >encryption. but i would like to see the support nonetheless, and let the
> >user decide if it's a risk they want to take.
>
> So you think that a switched network prevents the bad guy from snooping
> whatever he wants anyway ? Even a 11 year old script kiddie can snoop
> a switched network. The tools exist.
>
as i said, it should be a choice. the Unix Way(tm) has always been to let
the admin shoot themselves in the foot if they screw up.
could you point me at these tools? my expierience with switches has been
that if they are properly configured, sniffing without admin access is
pretty pointless, since you only see broadcast traffic, and traffic
destined to the system you are sniffing from. please correct me if i'm
incorrect.
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