[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Daniel Alexander Smith]

On 14 Jan 2010, at 16:09, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:

> On 14 Jan 2010, at 15:52, Jules wrote:
>> On 14/01/2010 15:50, Philip Boulain wrote:
>>> Ben Hodgson wrote:
>>>> Wired Equivalent Privacy. It's the kind of privacy that's  
>>>> equivalent a wire that's connected to everyone else's computer  
>>>> within 150ft of you. </sarc>
>>>
>>> No, let's be fair here.
>>>
>>> The hypothetical wire would at least let you /know/ which people  
>>> were on your network, and not give you a false sense of security. ;)
>> You never seen a "vampire tap"? Traditional thick and 10base-2  
>> ethernet didn't let you know...
>
> They're both far too young to remember those. :-)

I believe there was a demo recently (I thought at 26C3, but I can't  
find it there) of passively sniffing 100MBit ethernet by
bringing up two adapters, and putting the Tx into one, and the Rx into  
the other, and using capture software to munge them
back together. Doesn't (yet?) work on gigabit because the wiring is  
different.


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Daniel Alexander Smith

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