Can a sys admin see a gmail account

[aqabiz at gmail.com (Abdul Qabiz)]

What I have learnt, if you are on switched network, one can play MITM 
attack or dns spoofing, to get the GX cookies.

That's all you need, GX cookies. One can use GX cookies to login into 
your gmail account.


On 15/12/09 2:00 AM, Shawn McGovern wrote:
> Ok so my question was posted in a forum and someone gave me and answer 
> but didnt explain it and then the forum post was when closed on me.  
> So I will ask here for clarity and try not to kill me for this, I am 
> trying to learn.
>
> So if someone uses a corporate network to check a Gmail (using SSL).  
> If they check to make sure that they have a secure connection -- once 
> connected -- and then they check the certificate to see if the cert 
> hierarchy has been tampered with.  Everything looks fine.  Are any 
> admin or whomever able to see you emails?  Forget about software on 
> the computer you are using, only through the network monitoring.
>
> I was told in the forum that they could use a monitoring program like 
> wireshark to view them.  In the wireshark forum I read that you would 
> need the private key to decrypt the messages and in the forum they 
> said that a sys admin can get the private key?  Is that information 
> correct?  and if so how would they be able to get the private key?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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