DSL Providors

[Frank Carmickle]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:

> Actually Raul cable isn't less secure because its a fast open medium or 
> anything, its less secure because for the most part its not switched and 
> it operates like standard ethernet.
> This means that someone on the segment can turn on an ethernet sniffer 
> such as dsniff and grab url's mail messages and all kinds of stuff just by 
> putting their network card in to promiscuous mode.

See my previous message.  This isn't the case in new subscriptions.

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     Frank Carmickle
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