Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack

From: Alen Capalik (alenat_private)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 12:47:06 PST

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    > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:08:02PM -0800, J Edgar Hoover wrote:
    > > On 8 Feb 2002, jon schatz wrote:
    > [snip]
    > 
    > > > I truly don't buy it. No offense, but your level of paranoia seems to
    > > > match your email handle. I mean, if they really wanted to track all
    > > 
    > > I *catch* them snarfing my traffic, and I'm paranoid?
    > 
    > They are your ISP. All of your traffic goes through their
    > machines. They already see it all. If they want record the data you
    > are sending over their network, they could do so without you ever
    > knowing. So can everyone else in between your computer and the other
    > of any connection. It seems like one might as well get all uptight
    > that _they are storing your email on their servers!_ Of course they
    > are if you have a maildrop with them. They see all of your HTTP
    > traffic! Of course they do, it crosses their network.
    
    Amen to that.  Finally somebody points out THE OBVIOUS!!!
    
    -- 
    Alen Capalik
    Chief Security Engineer
    Tradeware Systems LLC 
    alenat_private
    



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