Cable modem - Secure mail

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
11 Sep 2000 22:26:50 -0400


basher584 <basher584@usol.com> writes:

> From what I read around is that anybody in my "neighborhood"
> could sniff the network.

Well, first of all, try to confirm this: Run tcpdump in
promiscuous mode and see if you can sniff other people's packets.
If you can, there's a good chance they can sniff yours, too, but
if you can't, they probably can't sniff yours, either.
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