Re: Help?
From: NeO (NeO33215@aol.com)Date: 05/24/02
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From: NeO33215@aol.com (NeO) Date: 24 May 2002 05:52:32 -0700
johne@sovereign.co.nz (John Elsbury) wrote in message news:<3cec751f.8617881@news.clear.net.nz>...
> On 22 May 2002 09:54:47 -0700, NeO33215@aol.com (NeO) wrote:
>
> >Im new with packet sniffers. And i keep reading bout them. I
> >constantly keep seeing that it is possible to read others e-mail, for
> >example, someone on a hotmail acount. I cant find any info on how it
> >works....can anyone help me...i also cant find a good packet
> >sniffer....need help with that too.
> > Thanx.
>
> Let's keep this very simple.
>
> Let's say you want to read your relative's (postal) mail, and they
> live in a different town. You have a number of options:
>
> Steal the mailbox it was posted in
> Be the people who carry the mail
> Be the people who sort the mail
> Be a government agency who can persuade the mail carrier to let them
> see the mail
> Mug the mailman
> Camp out by their letterbox and pretend to be the addressee
> burgle their house after they have receive the mail.
>
> Your approach may vary depending on whether you want to read the mail
> and pass it on - or read it and keep it: and on whether you care
> whether you are found reading it or not..
>
> Internet traffic is like a series of postcards sent from one address
> to another. A packet sniffer lets you see the postcards - but you
> have to be on top of the flow of postcards before you can use it.
> This means, in practice, that you have to have access to the bit of
> wire (or fiber or ether) through which the information is flowing. If
> you have a dial-up connection then you are not getting near anybody
> else's message traffic. If you have a cable connection, then you may
> be able to see message traffic from and to other users on a cable
> segment. If you are on a corporate network ("LAN") somewhere then you
> may also be able to see other users' traffic depending on how it is
> configured.
>
> This limits your options. On the other hand, if you are (or own) a
> telco or Internet Service Provider, or if you are a government, then
> you can get access to relatively more traffic (although now, of
> course, it is mixed in with everybody else's so you have to look
> harder to identify the bits of interest to you.
>
> Still with me?
E-mail does not go directly to the address your sending it to, right?
It can travel through many computers to get to its destenation, right?
So, ive got a regular (actually crappy) isp....dial-up connection, are
you saying i wouldnt be able to read any email that is going from
computer to computer? I'm kinda confused, if its not to much trouble,
can you please explain this much better? Thanx
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