Re: distributed.net and seti@home

[fygrave () EPR0 ORG (CyberPsychotic)]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 out of nowhere Clifford, Shawn A spoke:

~:If you are in the same broadcast domain as the client/target, might an ARP
~:cache poison work?
~:

 You definitely can take over the nameserver or default default gateway
(if nameserver is in different subnet) and subvert DNS responses. Such
sort of attacks were used with quite a bit of success on October's SANS
conferense's `root-games' (hope I got the name right).