Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 03:39:01 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Seagull <seagull@aracnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all th... [scary spy product] Message-ID: <20020324033038.T29652-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <200203231813.g2NIDfF21866@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Seagull wrote:
> PL> Long story short. Workplaces that use *hubs* for their LAN are icky and promiscuous. They pimp out your ehternet adapter ("NIC"). Workplaces that use *switches* are loverly. Security is your buhhhhh-dee.
> But don't be lulled into a false sense of security in a switched
With computers these days -- especially if you use Micro$oft's
VBScript-loving applications -- there is no such thing as having "lull" and
"sense of security" in the same sentence.
> environment. There's nothing to prevent someone from attaching a hub in
> an unsuspecting cow-orker's office and sniffing from there. A lot of
Very good point.
> companies hide network drops under desks, behind furniture, etc. for
> asthetic reasons. It's real easy to hide a hub and a network cable
> without anyone ever knowing. And in some of the offices I've seen, you
> could probably hide a working laptop for a couple of days, too. Use as
> much security as your business conditions allow.
> Cheers,
> John
> --
> \ carpe cavy!
> seagull @ aracnet.com \
> http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull \ (seize the guinea pig!)
I am really replying to this message because there's a really cool but
really scary product out there carried by most spy, surveillance, and
counter-surveillance retailers. It's a rather innocuous-looking 1.3"
(approx. 11cm?) long or so regular-seeming keyboard adapter that goes
between the keyboard plug and the PC. The adapter can log all keystrokes
up to 64k or something. I guess if you saved your password in a plaintext
file then you could defeat this keylogger with copy/paste, but -- why??
Not long before everything involving controlled, private computer access is
any one of: retinal scan, artificial intelligent conversationalism (in case
of duress), facial recognition, warm fingerprint scanner (in case of
severed digits), etc. Comments on the one-uppingness or
chicken-or-egg-first philosophies anyone?
--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555
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