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RE: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack
From: "PIATT, BRET L (PB)" <bp3847 () sbc com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:05:28 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As far as directing and injecting ads, http://www.frontporch.com has had the technology since 1998. They've recently redone their site I'm not sure how many ISP customers they have right now as the site is pretty vague. Bret Piatt | Network Security Engineer II | CISSP-CCNP-CCDP SBC DataComm | Advanced Security Services Group | SCNA-RHCE-MCP - -----Original Message----- From: jon schatz [mailto:jon () divisionbyzero com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:42 AM To: J Edgar Hoover Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com; bugtraq () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack <snip>
This allows them to monitor and change (or insert ads into) what you read.
It most certainly does. How do you know that they aren't already? They probably aren't though, because as of 6 months ago, none of the major players had the ability to insert content into requests. (more on this later). <snip> - -jon - -- jon () divisionbyzero com || www.divisionbyzero.com gpg key: www.divisionbyzero.com/pubkey.asc think i have a virus?: www.divisionbyzero.com/pgp.html "You are in a twisty little maze of Sendmail rules, all confusing." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 iQA/AwUBPGRZbF+IxmqPU329EQIYUwCcCuRScXfXTybH6PyeGDoyh1KOmEoAoKJs zv78mSzclEVEgFAvBpHVToHM =nT4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack, (continued)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack Alen Capalik (Feb 09)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack - tech J Edgar Hoover (Feb 09)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack - ethics J Edgar Hoover (Feb 09)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack - ethics Blue Boar (Feb 09)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack - ethics John Hall (Feb 10)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack - ethics J Edgar Hoover (Feb 10)
- RE: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack Thomas J. Arseneault (Feb 08)
- Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack J Edgar Hoover (Feb 08)