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Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> The only problem I have with this and a lot of other coverage of the
> cracking is that it makes the assumption that e-mail normally is
> secure. The hotmail cracking makes things a lot easier, but reading
> other people's e-mail is still a juvenile task, as is faking their
> address. That's what pgp is for.
I have to agree, especially when it's using a clear text protocol like
HTTP. If you'd like to see it for yourself, just install a decent
packet-capturing utility on your system. Just start capturing packets,
and have someone access a web page, and you'll see. I demonstrated this
to a student in my NT class with the Network Monitor utility from SMS, and
his access to his college's web-based email.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 1999
mryan@netaxs.com | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
PGP fingerprint: 7B E5 75 7F 24 EE 19 35 A5 DF C3 45 27 B5 DB DF
PGP public key available by fingering mryan@unix.netaxs.com (use -l opt)
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