Id be more shocked if the government was being efficient. Dtfm, special 
signals, and intricate plans? Sure! 

A vpn and ten minutes of work? Color me shocked. 

> On Dec 1, 2017, at 3:19 PM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> well, that is possible. taking the audio and streaming it to a specific 
> location is definitely within the realm of possibility.
> 
> still, wouldn't it be easier to use a vpn along with 2 other forms of 
> encryption to get the same result?
> 
> -eric
> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Too many secrets Dept.
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
>> 
>> Which means that the ‘out of band’ cannot get ‘out of your subnet’, and 
>> probably won’t even get ‘past your Ethernet hub/switch/router/whatever’ into 
>> which the other end of your Ethernet cable is plugged.
>>  
>> Probably, unless you send it ‘loud enough’ to overwhelm the switch and get 
>> bleedthrough to the other lines on the switch.  But I’d be surprised if you 
>> could get it past the NEXT switch without damage to the first one.
>>  
>> Just guessing, though.  Anybody have some switches they don’t mind 
>> destroying for a little test? ;-)
>>  
>>  
>> (This reminds me a little bit of the ‘rumor’ of a ‘flashing eye’ that a 
>> hacker could manage to display on the system console of a UNIVAC 1110 series 
>> computer if they knew the secret incantations (and more than one was 
>> required, let me tell you!).
>>  
>> Turns out, that in this case, the rumor was true, just not in the way we’d 
>> heard it.)
>>  
>> Perhaps they’re putting digitized DTMF into the packet and sending it to a 
>> special port on the other end?  (you know, port 80 is used for http, etc).
>>  
>> Rusty
>>  
>> From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Eric Oyen
>> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 11:52 AM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Re: Dtmf over rj45
>>  
>> the kernel of truth is that you can use cat-x cable to do this, but any 
>> ethernet switches in the line will either interrupt completely or filter out 
>> the extraneous data as noise. In either case, your "out of band" 
>> transmissions will be eaten by the first switch they come across. 
>>  
>> -eric
>> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, the "you can't get from 
>> here to there" dept.
>>  
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:09 AM, Aaron Jones wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Not sure myself honestly. The guy was using buzz words like “out of band 
>> transmission” and claiming they could use dtmf and the intel me to send 
>> “untraceable” data without the use of IP. 
>>  
>> I am trying to be objective about it but it seems like it wouldn’t be an 
>> effective method of getting data out of a network. 
>>  
>> So potentially there is a kernel (heh) of truth in there. Who knows right 
>> now I guess. 
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>> 
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 7:38 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Steve is right you can use RJ45 to transmit. The signal but Ethernet switch 
>> are expecting Ethernet frames. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 7:18 AM, Stephen Partington <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Are you talking about embedding this sort of functional noise into a line 
>> being used by ethernet? and yes most quality switches would try to clean up 
>> the noise in order to secure the data unless it just created enough of an 
>> interruption to just disrupt the connection as a whole.
>>  
>> RJ45 is a socket type so you can wire it to do whatever you want. you can 
>> use cat 4,5,6 cable to transport anything you want. I know multiple sites 
>> that wired ethernet cable for POTS just because it gave them the ability to 
>> do a number of things based on need.
>>  
>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Aaron Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Any one have any experience with dtmf (beeps and boops over phone) but using 
>> rj45 instead of rj11?
>> 
>> I viewed a claim that the intel me can produce dtmf instructions that will 
>> be regarded as noise by tools like wireshark and can be used to transfer 
>> things like encryption keys surreptitiously over the net without being seen 
>> by monitoring tools.
>> 
>> Essentially data is hidden in sight as noise on the line and picked up 
>> somewhere else.
>> 
>> Rj11 phone line can do this. But can it be done with rj45? Wouldn’t the 
>> first switch it hit just smooth noise?
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