Re: How can i find out if someone sniffs my IP-Packets

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 01/28/04


Date: 28 Jan 2004 04:56:09 GMT

In article <40171EB6.7C4AEA66@yahoo.com>,
Ewald Peters <ewald_peters@yahoo.com> wrote:
:Is it somehow possible to scan around in the LAN or
:probably outside in the internet and find out,
:if someone reads my IP-Packets other then the
:IP-address that i sent them to, or the routers, that
:should forward the packets?

No.

:I could imagine with a kind of packet where a possible
:sniffer has to contact me to get the whole content
:of the packet?

No. People doing that kind of sniffing just record everything
that is sent and never actively reply to a packet.

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WW{Backus,Church,Dijkstra,Knuth,Hollerith,Turing,vonNeumann}D ?


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