I'm glad to hear that, homo.

So when are you and KP getting married? When he moves to California? Are the two of you going to have a threesome marriage with your "girlfriend"? Damn Californians.

Oh, by the way, tell your fellow Californicators to quit buying property here and raising the cost of living.

Okay, I think I got it all out of my system.

Fuck shit-eater ball-sniffer Jennifer Lopez!

Okay, NOW I'm done.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Did you piss me off? No way. I have pretty thick skin. Feel free to bust my chops whenever and however.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Hey, did I actually piss you off with that icon I made? It was made to be a joke about your "Internet AIDS" that you caught from my comment. Just curious.

There are many different ways to sniff and spoof. These things are not common knowledge but they are the required learning for network IT guys.

Spoofing: Making a persons router think that you are the admin, and making the persons computer think you are the router. Man in the middle attack. This is a compromised network. See ARP spoofing, or UDP Spoofing, or SYN ACK attack.

Sniffing un compromised networks: In these we can snoop traffic, therefore any thing sent over a HTTP session can be snooped for and ripped open with a packet sniffer, HTTPS makes this harder. You throw a baseball, some one catches it, and then reads whats on the ball then sends it along. No network is safe from that unless, its a private network with no internet connection. Now it is possible to find these snoopers, by hop transfer time estimation. If a normally fast connection takes forever to return a page, then it could be a sign of an attack. If you have a notable ISP, or a good firewall and a secure HTTPS site like .gov or bank sites then it is a bit safer. That doesnt stop the ISPs from tracking your stuff.

In short if you have a firewall, you are safe from hijacking, but when you send stuff out over the internet (Like this comment here) then it is possible some one will read it. That is the nature of the beast.

If you suspect that the traffic is going some where it shouldn't be, trace its route to the server. I did a trace to this page from my gateway and it has about about 11 hops, traffic spikes once it makes its way over towards the west coast, thats normal from the east coast.

http://visualroute.visualware.com/

http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php - this page doesnt send you to a web server, it sends you to a gateway, where your traffic stops.

I am not a professional, and I have no affiliation with the above systems linked. From your friendly neighborhood white hat.

PS: The odds of a computer with a good firewall being attacked are pretty slim.

Yay! Thank you so much. Just to be sure, the nature of these sniffer-thingies requires a compromised computer or network, right?

Thx. Searched for that fer a while, but I was using wire and spool instead of cable. Hmm, still...I used roll, crash and stairs and got nothin. Ah well.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Follow your nose!

My dupe sniffer never fails. http://www.videosift.com/video/Cable-Roll-Mishap


*discard

Follow your nose!

My dupe sniffer never fails. http://www.videosift.com/video/Cable-Roll-Mishap


*discard

Well, MG your sniffer is usually dead on. I've looked for it, but if you find it let me know or go ahead and discard.

Running an http sniffer on it, it seems to be the crossdomain policy file is unable to load. In FireFox, it will just keep attempting to load, but if you try IE7, I've been able to get them to play fine.

if the network is hidden, it's less likely to become a target.

as for wifi sniffers, if someone is determined, they can get through anything, but are you really that much of a target when there's an access point right next door that's wide open?

in theory, multiple levels of authentication/protection is always a good idea, but if you're a target in the first place it will only slow down the attackers. they'll still get through with the right tools and knowledge.

My profile says I already have 254 published posts, my star reflects only 248. Choggie's is doing it too. Confusing huh

In reply to your comment:
“you're at 9 votes on your two oldest sifts, you just need 2 more votes.. soooo close.

In reply to your comment:
“Me too, for a day now... someone needs to install that sniffer in Siftbot

In reply to your comment:
“Who said diamonds have no smell, I can smell it from here!!”””

Me too, for a day now... someone needs to install that sniffer in Siftbot

In reply to your comment:
“Who said diamonds have no smell, I can smell it from here!!”

no I say "sounded" like the Wilhelm. My kids are expert sniffers of that particular sound byte.

Im off to Get my coppy 2 oh hang on non of my games will work and half the software i use for work wont eather.

the only time i personaly wud use linix is if i was going to use my pc for a specific task like say a midea center ore network sniffer cracker. now for the latter you can use a bootable thumbstick versoin like nopix. inshort windows may not be better but the software salectoin for it sure especaily when you are looking at graphical aplicatoins. thats not the fult of linix but u canot exspect developers to switch and only huge ones could make software for both platforms.

Well, since I'm not a season self-link sniffer like some of you guys... I differ the *ban/blog/discard decision to one of you guys.

great part.

I wish someone would post the 'guarantee fairy isn't a crazy little glue sniffer'