[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Jules]

On 14/01/2010 16:31, Daniel Alexander Smith wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Failing that, a hub and a couple of bits of wet string do the job 
perfectly well.

Jules

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