On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 13:40 +0200, Andreas Tirok wrote:
In the book "Firewalls and Internet Security" of W.R. Cheswick and S.M. Bellovin they described that you have only to cut the transmit wire of the twisted pair cable.
... to interrupt the TP link beat and have the hub or switch turn this port off since it's "not in use". :) No, in modern times you need all the wires but have to keep the software from answering / producing traffic. And receiving all the data and processing it will make the machine react in some some different way compared to how it does "without reading all the net". So you can recognize workstations with sniffers running. Although dedicated hardware with no other job could be undiscovered long enough ... virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.