[1676] in bugtraq
Re: Detecting a sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Barr)
Tue May 2 14:07:51 1995
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Reply-To: /dev/null@math.psu.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 1995 09:37:53 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 11:30:22 -0400
From: Dave Barr <barr@math.psu.edu>
In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.950502093433.6021D-100000@eram.esi.com.au>, Dave Hors
fall writes:
>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?
Come on, folks, this discussion has gone beyond noise into the realms
of absurdium.
TDR's only work with coax. 10BaseT greatly complicates things.
Furthermore a TDR only can find unauthorized taps. The original
question did not say "how can I find unauthorized taps on my wire".
It was "how can I detect a sniffer". These are two very different
questions.
So can we all please shut up about this topic and get back to the
subject of the list?
--Dave
