Re: Hijacking tool

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> Alec-
>     I think you may be confusing two techniques here - both of which
> have just become more 'popular.'  I believe the hijacking technique
> is to use TAP, a modloadable SunOS driver to read and possibly write
> to an established pty.

probably is confusing the two, but its a viable attack.. hijack
a tcp session that is already underway.  

> The TCP sequence number is what RTM and SMB wrote about.  This is
> different - you don't need root anywhere to to that.

You do need priveledged access to a machine to send out arbitrary
packets.  (Any mac or dos user is priveledged).

> Quentin

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