[1670] in bugtraq
Re: Detecting a sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 2 12:15:52 1995
To: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 1995 17:56:32 +1000."
<199505020756.RAA11408@suburbia.apana.org.au>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 09:39:22 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Julian Assange says:
> >
> > On Mon, 1 May 1995, Bennett Todd wrote:
> >
> > > You can't "detect a sniffer" from looking at the net; [...]
> >
> > Not even with a Time Domain Reflectometer?
>
> Probably easier to just look at the wire, dodn't you think?
You can't always look at the whole wire. Try it on a real network with
3,000 machines on three continents sometime.
Perry
