Re: Packet sniffing & regular users
Incoming from David Mandelberg:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Do you understand what "anyone can see anything" really means? Have
> > you pumped tcpdump output into ethereal lately?
> >
> > "anyone can see anything" really means "anyone can see anything".
> > Think about it. And what's the real reason why you don't want to
> > bother with sudo?
> I'm curious, but what's wrong with letting them sniff all hardware interfaces
> (i.e. not lo)? Any passwords or confidential data should be encrypted anyway
"... should be" != "are." Are you sure no-one there's using telnet,
ftp, & etc?
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