Re: Re: Sneaking a peek on Wlan in airports

[killy <killfactory () gmail com>]

ROFL, that is exactly what I was thinking.

This is a sticky situation really.

Jason,

I have not always agreed with the idea that this is intercepting communications.

If you were to do an arp poisoning or someother MITM ;) attack, then
yes i agree that that is intercepting.

But if you are in promiscuous mode wirelessly, that is kind of like
over hearing a conversation happening in an elevator.

I know that may not stand up in court, but I have always thought that.

Now with that being said, to run some HIDS on you wireless connection
is almost the same right?

So, to protect my self I run in promiscuous mode and I have to evalute
the traffic that is broadcasting and being received by my NIC. I
didn't ask for the traffic to touch my NIC, but it does. So, now a
flase positive is triggered and packets are logged. Not that false
positives ever happen ;-). So am I now in trouble because I picked up
some SMB traffic and it was inaccurately logged and maybe I logged a
sensitive file being transfered?

Maybe I am just a wacko..lol

But this is a fun topic.

-kill

On 5/17/07, alan <alan () clueserver org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, ebk_lists () hotmail com wrote:
>
> > I agree wholeheartedly with this view.
> >
> > Not much else to say!
> >
> > If you really feel it is necessary, than trying to advise the person/company of the issue anonymously is an option. 
> Depending on the nature and severity of the issue.
>
> Maybe the airport needs a "Wall of Sheep".
>
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