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Why the snide remark? Was there something unreasonable about what he said?
by rfnslyr 13y ago
Why the snide remark? Was there something unreasonable about what he said?
- verandaguy 13y agoYes, the part where you asked people to send complete logs of their network traffic to anonymous strangers like yourself.
- rfnslyr 13y agoIs it not completely obvious to filter out other traffic that is unrelated? How verbose must one be?
- verandaguy 13y ago... But wouldn't that alone require the data collector (e.g. whomever you're asking for the data) to sift over their logs in the first place, segregating what they know is their own traffic from something generated by a TV or other smart appliance? Evidently, either I'm slow in understanding your reasoning, or you should be more verbose.
- cjfont 13y agoI have an idea, how about we delegate the job of data collecting to those who 1) have the resources to easily segregate their TV traffic from the rest of their network, or 2) don't have any problems publicizing their non-relevant traffic (because it doesn't contain anything sensitive).
- rfnslyr 13y agoYou can filter your traffic with a few clicks for a specific stream/connection/device.
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- Danieru 13y agoSorry I did not mean to be snide, I thought smtddr was setting up the joke and relying on someone to hit the punchline. I also thought the "people like me" was part of the joke implying "identity theives like I am pretending to be". Edit: I should also mention why I did not take his request seriously. Now that all Ethernet networks use switches and not hubs you will only see traffic involving your desktop. The exception being a laptop connected to the same wifi as the TV provided said wifi is unencrypted. Thus in the common case if you ask a random person to log their network they will only log their own computer's traffic.
- ars_technician 13y ago>Thus in the common case if you ask a random person to log their network they will only log their own computer's traffic. Wrong. The common case is wifi.
- Danieru 13y agoThe common case of hacker news readers is not unencrypted wifi.
- ars_technician 13y agoNo one said unencrypted. Also, encrypted wifi can still be captured if you know the password to your own network. Learn something: http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/17200/sniff-wpa2-network http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/17200/sniff-wpa2-network