Is the SA login secure

From: Buck Taylor (BuckTaylor_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:23:03 -0800

When I login with an sa account to a SQL server on our network how is the
login and password transferred? Is it encrypted in someway or transferred in
plain text? If someone had a sniffer on my network could they see the
password just come across and grab it?

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