[1680] in bugtraq
Re: Detecting a sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Tue May 2 21:36:35 1995
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 09:06:35 +1000 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9505021339.AA21666@snark.imsi.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at May 2, 95 09:39:22 am
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> 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.
>
Some how I suspect a TDR isn't going to work in this case either.
-Proff
