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Run a packet sniffer on a box on you local lan with an interface in pomisc mode, capture port 110, tcp and jot down everyones username/password and read their mail while they retrieve it. Its not overly hard in that situation. POP, and SMTP are clear text, and wide open for sniffing. J. When I grow up, I wanna be more like me. I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an attitude. On 1999年8月31日, Nick R wrote: > Outside of social engineering and brute force crack attempts how's this so > w/ POP3? > > > >From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org> > >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net > >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net > >Subject: Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again > >Date: 1999年8月31日 07:12:16 -0500 > > > >On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:20:02PM -0400, Andy Bradley wrote: > > > http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.06/ > > > >The only problem I have with this and a lot of other coverage of the > >cracking is that it makes the assumption that e-mail normally is > >secure. The hotmail cracking makes things a lot easier, but reading > >other people's e-mail is still a juvenile task, as is faking their > >address. That's what pgp is for. > > > >-- > >Morgan Wajda-Levie > >http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev > >PGP fingerprint: > >A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C > >http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key > >encrypted mail preferred > ><< attach3 >> > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug