On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Actually Raul cable isn't less secure because its a fast open medium or
> anything, its less secure because for the most part its not switched and
> it operates like standard ethernet.
> This means that someone on the segment can turn on an ethernet sniffer
> such as dsniff and grab url's mail messages and all kinds of stuff just by
> putting their network card in to promiscuous mode.
See my previous message. This isn't the case in new subscriptions.
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Frank Carmickle
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