[7471] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Thu Jul 13 00:35:50 2000
From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:59:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>,
"P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, cryptography@c2.net,
Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
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David Honig writes:
> For $500/monthly you too can have a box in various NAPs. You can
> run your NIC in Bill Clinton mode, e.g., to measure certain
> things about traffic. I know of a corporation doing this (they
> are only interested in infrastructure traffic, not content).
I know of a (deceased) person who has been running such a promiscuous
NIC for the purpose of IRC bot password interception. As a result he
took over a #channel...
Apropos IRC, is there anything on the horizont (apart from Fling),
which will at least use strong encryption for /dcc chat? Perhaps even
public-key authentication? Pointers welcome.
