Re: [nycwireless] ethics of dsniff?

[Jeff D]

Years ago, I was setting up an AP, but couldn't figure out why I was 
grabbing strange private IP addresses.  I realized that my AP was powered 
off, someone else's unsecured network was leaking into our office, and my 
machine had connected to it ("ANY").  To alert these people to the dangers 
of an open AP, I used the HP JetDirect utility to search for a printer, 
and then sent a few pages saying some warning in VERY BIG, BOLD, ALL CAPS 
letters.

Ethical?  Probably not.  But it was relatively anonymous, and got the 
message across.

Jeff
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Anthony Townsend wrote:
does anyone know what the legal/ethical implications of running dsniff to 
demonstrate poor wireless security practice?

i'm at a conference, ran dsniff for about 5 minutes (no logging) and saw 
about three dozen different mail logins go by. i want to say something to the 
group, but afraid that i might really offend/upset people who think i'm 
spying on them.


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