On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:12:00 -0400, Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> wrote: > Anyone eavesdropping on your network can read your telnet account name and > password from the traffic, since they're sent in clear. Now, if the network > is entirely switched that becomes harder .... But not too much harder: http://www.securesphere.net/download/papers/SwitchSniff.htm (and also look at 'dsniff'). Sid