On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:57:59PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > [snip] > > In anycase, it is pointless paranoia. A much more plausible scenario > > is a disgruntled employee at any of the computers between you and the > > destination sniffing packets. Or someone hacking those > > computers/routers. > > I don't know how it's done, but it's totally true: everything on your > cable modem can be intercepted easily by people on your same subnet. > I'd guess the cable modems are ignoring data not meant for you specifically. The actual cable line still carries all data however and it's just a simple matter of modulating/demodulating it. I'm curious to know if you could ARP poision machines on your subnet and perform attacks based on that.
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