From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 30 1:24:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41D48150F2 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 738 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Jun 1999 08:24:18 +0000 (GMT) To: julian@whistle.com Cc: rb@gid.co.uk, jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump(1) additions. From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:22:08 -0700 (PDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:24:18 +0200 Message-ID: <736.930731058@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It would make sense except that the last time someone tried, some people > complained that it made it too easy to sniff passwords etc. There are plenty of patches to do this available, and plenty of other packet sniffers that do this. AFAIK even the attitude of the tcpdump maintainers is changing - precisely because this facility is so widely available. Let us by all means have an ACII dump facility. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message