Re: Packet sniffing & regular users
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Mandelberg wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> > ah .. good point ... i make no distinction between "local access"
> > vs "physical access" in that if the server is behind the locked
> > door, it'd be better than if its on the corp server in the next
> > open cubicle on the same cat 5 wires, hubs and switches etc
>
> Physical access means they can touch the machine. Local access means they can
> log into the machine. Often local access is further restricted to mean they can
> log in and get a real shell (i.e. the shell isn't /usr/sbin/pppd).
:-) ... differences of definitions ... no problem .. all is good
and remote access to me is when they login into the box over the wire
in the office or from home, hotel, starbucks, airport,
mountaintopwithantenna, ...
no matter where they are .. they are still sniffing ...
c ya
alvin
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