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Re: Detecting a sniffer
From: bet () std sbi com (Bennett Todd)
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:46:50 -0400 (EDT)
Of course you can detect a sniffer, but are you willing to pay the cost of doing so?
You can't "detect a sniffer" from looking at the net; the only way you can try is to identify specific software indications of one being run on your machine. If it's run on a different machine, on one you can't check (perhaps on a palmtop someone has plugged into the net), then you can't detect it at all. Even if it's being run on your server, you can detect it if the author of the sniffer didn't know about, and defeat, the particular detection mechanism you use. -Bennett bet () sbi com
Current thread:
- Detecting a sniffer Dr. Frederick B. Cohen (May 01)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Craig Metz (Apr 30)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Bennett Todd (May 01)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Dave Horsfall (May 01)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Perry E. Metzger (May 01)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Julian Assange (May 02)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Perry E. Metzger (May 02)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Julian Assange (May 02)
- sub Nasmap () aol com (May 02)
- info usmcgds1 () ibmmail COM (May 02)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Rens Troost (May 02)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (May 03)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Dave Horsfall (May 01)
- Re: Detecting a sniffer Bennett Todd (May 02)