On Wed, Feb 06, 2008, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>Hi all,
>As long as I can remember reading various articles/docs, they all say that
>telnet is not secure because all traffic is in clear text. Well, out of
>boredom, I try to sniff username and password from a telnet session.
Another program I like for things like this is tcpflow which
takes the same command line arguments as tcpdump, but creates
separate files for each side of a tcp connection. It displays
the data in plain text which makes debugging things like
unencrypted imap and pop connections fairly easy.
Bill
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