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Re: references to password sniffer incident
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel S. Riley)
Mon Mar 8 15:02:37 1999
To: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Date: 08 Mar 1999 13:44:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Rose's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:29:59 +1100"
Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com> writes:
> I wanted to refer to the incident where someone mounted a password
> sniffer at a major network hub (MAE-West?) a couple of years
> ago. But I haven't turned up anything useful in a Web search. I
> didn't dream this incident, did I? Does anyone have any references?
There was an alleged incident in 1993, where a sniffer had access to
the BARRNet low-speed router traffic--a lot less damaging than a
sniffer on MAE-West, but that's the only incident of the type I can
recall. http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1993_4/0032.html is the only
useful reference I could find.
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Dan Riley dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu
Wilson Lab, Cornell University <URL:http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~dsr/>
"History teaches us that days like this are best spent in bed"
