The sniffed "passwords" were sometimes displayed in real time on a monitor facing the audience from the front of the room. This activity was never called "research" that I can recall. I think the majority reaction was that this was a fine thing to motivate improvements in security practice. Only one person was upset, that I remember. And several people, seeing that this was going on, wrote little network apps to give the appearance to sniffers that plaintext passwords were being sent so use they could display messages on said monitor, like "this" "is" "not" "my" "real" "password", etc. Thanks, Donald On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Fred Baker <fred@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Randy, we have had at least one "researcher" sniffing passwords in plenary WiFi traffic and posting them, to embarrass people into using more secure technology. I believe he was an Ops AD at the time :-) > > Agreed that personal net hygiene is the solution there. > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >> [ fwiw, i am not bothered if some folk well-versed in such things >> develop and put forth a policy about how the ietf treats data >> about members, attendees, network, ... ] >> >>> And "yes" we have researchers looking into the traffic, people storing >>> all sorts of data, etc. >> >> we do? about our traffic on the ietf meeting network? stuff other than >> the _ephemeral_ data the noc ops use to manage the network? >> >> as far as i know >> >> o data collection has been done very rarely. and when it has been, it >> has been widely announced. >> >> o there is no plan known by the net ops to do so in maastricht or >> beijing at either of those meetings. >> >> o aside from issues in the wireless deployment, the data about net use >> at ietf meeings seems pretty boring to me from a research view >> >> o but i am sure there are wifi spies snooping and playing. and i >> suspect that they will not be very respectful of any policy put in >> place. >> >> given the latter, i focus more on prudent personal net hygene and less >> on prose. >> >> randy >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
