Re: Detecting a sniffer

Julian Assange (proff@suburbia.apana.org.au)
Wed, 3 May 1995 09:06:35 +1000 (EST)

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> 
> Julian Assange says:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 1 May 1995, Bennett Todd wrote:
> > > 
> > > > You can't "detect a sniffer" from looking at the net; [...]
> > > 
> > > Not even with a Time Domain Reflectometer?
> > 
> > Probably easier to just look at the wire, dodn't you think?
> 
> You can't always look at the whole wire. Try it on a real network with
> 3,000 machines on three continents sometime.
> 

Some how I suspect a TDR isn't going to work in this case either.

-Proff