Re: Packet sniffing & regular users
Incoming from Alvin Oga:
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> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, David Mandelberg wrote:
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> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > Isn't it generally accepted that black hats who get local access (ie.,
> > > a user login account) is _much_ worse than black hats who've been kept
>
> anybody and everybody has "local access" with or without permission
>
> > > out? Assuming black hat wants root, taking over a user's account is a
> > > very big first step.
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> that's trivial to do ... assuming you allow anybody to reboot a pc
Are you confusing "local access" with "physical access?" With the
latter, all bets are off and any security you rely on on the running
system is irrelevant.
> sniffers:
> http://linux-sec.net/Sniffers
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> i like pfilt.pl ... anybody, non-techies can use it and sniff
http://www.linux-sec.net/Sniffer/Scripts/royans.net/pfilt.pl
Your link points at wireless sniffers? But thanks for that.
Interesting site.
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