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Wouldn't it be fairer to say that badly implemented security is dangerous if/when it sends passwords in plaintext, therefore allowing them to be sniffed... In a perfect world sniffers would be useless as password capture tools since all secure traffic would be properly encrypted and users would pick good passwords, making them therefore out of reach of all but the most determined cracker. - - tony - -----Original Message----- From: 'ken'@FTU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 October 2001 22:42 To: Pradeep Kumar Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Syn Flood generator / Dos Attack generator nmap is a scanning tool used to determine machines and services on a network. It also does OS identification via stack finger printing. A sniffer captures packets as they hit the Ethernet card. Sniffers are dangerous because they can capture passwords in cleartext. I hope this clarifies things. 'ken' @ FTU -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> Comment: http://www.snowwinter.f2s.com/ iQA/AwUBO83Zbq0tBy4nR959EQIkAgCdH7aqf1LmSC9FdSj7lT1l63Mu/DsAnRNM ldSE0rYzXpV+aee7I+iOA/z9 =KSrP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
