Timeline for What stops an internet router from sniffing my traffic?
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| Dec 17, 2013 at 4:57 | audit | First posts | |||
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| Nov 29, 2013 at 21:34 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | @Et Al, I would be surprised to find unencrypted email services these days (Daniel, your findings are terrifying) and you are quite correct, encryption is the answer. the SMTP example has always been text book, because its easy to walk students through in the lab, and really underscores the importance of encrypting data crossing unknown or unfriendly networks. | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 6:40 | comment | added | Daniel F | @FrankThomas, last time I checked, and that was now, Hotmail/Outlook/Yahoo don't use TLS when sending a mail to an external server. They doesn't even check if the receiving SMTP server can upgrade to TLS. At least Gmail does use TLS. | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 20:32 | comment | added | user606723 | @MaciejPiechotka, TLS only encrypts point to point. (Not end to end) Each server can read the message in it's entirety and there is no guarantee that the server will use TLS anyway, even if you do. | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 13:29 | history | protected | Diogo | ||
| Nov 26, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | Maja Piechotka | @FrankThomas - this is true only if SMTP does not use TLS (by STARTTLS etc.). I thought most servers does not accept unencrypted SMTP from clients (however - I would not my first disappointment in people's approach to security). | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 19:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/405422981578383360 | ||
| Nov 26, 2013 at 19:33 | audit | First posts | |||
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| Nov 26, 2013 at 18:16 | comment | added | Kaz | Routers have to "view" your packet in order to verify checksums, to pull out the headers to make routing decisions, to rewrite addresses (NAT) and to modify the TTL fields. | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 18:05 | answer | added | user14372 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 17:38 | answer | added | George Michael | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | 200_success | As you can tell from the answers, routers can easily sniff IP traffic. In particular, wireless access points are also routers (or bridges), and they are particularly easy to set up and entice people to use. | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 13:09 | comment | added | Naughty.Coder | @FrankThomas interesting! | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 12:58 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | did you know that if you capture all the packets in an SMTP transmission, dump their data and convert it back to text (unicode nowadays, used to be ascii), you can read the email with little or no modification? people refer to email as a postcard, because there is no envelope to hide it from view as it passes between your host and the server. | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 12:56 | answer | added | UsersUser | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 12:50 | answer | added | n.st | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 12:49 | answer | added | mveroone | timeline score: 52 | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 12:43 | history | asked | Naughty.Coder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |