[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Neil Broderick]

On 14 Jan 2010, at 16:31, Daniel Alexander Smith wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Isn't that just a classical man-in-the-middle attack? I can see that working with any wire-based system and assuming that you
don't notice them doing it (since it would cause some disruption) would be fairly hard to detect - although the latency would be increased
so you could perhaps detect it that way.

cheers,
Neil