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The really awesome part about Ethernet hubs was that if you knew what you were doing, you could get everything on the bus delivered to your device. Fun fact, i
by jedberg 1y ago
The really awesome part about Ethernet hubs was that if you knew what you were doing, you could get everything on the bus delivered to your device. Fun fact, in the 90s, most every college dorm had one hub per building (or if you were at MIT, one huge network for all of them).
Since most everything ran over plain text, you'd be surprised what you could learn when you aggregated all AOL IMs and ICQ messages in one interface...
- esafak 1y agoGentlemen don't read each other's packets ;)
- jedberg 1y agoOf course not. But I was 18 and certainly not a gentleman. Teenagers are morons. :) I would never do such a thing now of course.
- dotancohen 1y agoNow that everything is https, I don't think that you could.
- jedberg 1y agoWhy do you think everything is https now? :)
- dotancohen 1y agoGo on, I'm interested...
- immibis 1y agoIt's because Firesheep made it easy to do exactly that
- dotancohen 1y agoOh, of course. I thought you were implying that not everything is https today.
- sksxihve 1y agoCould be done on switched networks too through arp spoofing
- jedberg 1y agoIt's a lot harder though, because you can only target a single IP at a time and many switches have preventative measures built in. Back in the day the hub would conveniently send all the packets on the network to you and all you had to do was listen.
- sksxihve 1y agonot really and not true, back in the day ettercap automated arp cache poisoning a LAN which lets you sniff more than 1 target since they map the gateway with the attackers mac address, switches might protect against this now but even in the early 2000's it was very effective (not that I would ever do it)