ROFL, that is exactly what I was thinking.
This is a sticky situation really.
Jason,
I have not always agreed with the idea that this is intercepting communications.
If you were to do an arp poisoning or someother MITM ;) attack, then
yes i agree that that is intercepting.
But if you are in promiscuous mode wirelessly, that is kind of like
over hearing a conversation happening in an elevator.
I know that may not stand up in court, but I have always thought that.
Now with that being said, to run some HIDS on you wireless connection
is almost the same right?
So, to protect my self I run in promiscuous mode and I have to evalute
the traffic that is broadcasting and being received by my NIC. I
didn't ask for the traffic to touch my NIC, but it does. So, now a
flase positive is triggered and packets are logged. Not that false
positives ever happen ;-). So am I now in trouble because I picked up
some SMB traffic and it was inaccurately logged and maybe I logged a
sensitive file being transfered?
Maybe I am just a wacko..lol
But this is a fun topic.
-kill
On 5/17/07, alan <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007, ebk_lists@hotmail.com wrote:
> I agree wholeheartedly with this view.
>
> Not much else to say!
>
> If you really feel it is necessary, than trying to advise the person/company
of the issue anonymously is an option. Depending on the nature and severity of the
issue.
Maybe the airport needs a "Wall of Sheep".
--
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
- Alan Cox
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