On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Robert de Forest wrote: > If your cable modem is as simple as a hub you could probably snoop people's > traffic without assigning them an IP. I think this is something a lot of > people are going to be unaware of, and it's going to be a big security > hole.
Yikes. I figured it was similar to DSL, where a bunch of people are on the same network, but the DSL "modem" is a bridge, so you only get your own traffic and broadcast traffic. If it's really just a hub and you get non-broadcast traffic to which you are not a party, it's bound to be abused sooner or later. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.halcyon.com/dagon/> !G "Government is not suggestion nor persuasion, it is force. When you advocate any government action, you first must believe that violence is the best answer to the question at hand." -- Laws of the Jungle, by Allen Thornton
