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Sorry 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
by Danieru 13y ago
Sorry 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