Dustin  wrote in
news:XnsA3D7CA4E16FCCC9X238BHEUFHHI5RJ791@192.254.233.145: 

> "p-0''0-h the cat (ES)"  wrote
> in news:1im75a5afjan1fs6qolbfr51bdjn61j56h@4ax.com: 
> 
>> Well if you knew it already why the inaccurate initial post.
> 
> Post wasn't inaccurate.
>  
>> probably work, secondhand on Ebay £20 for something decent] if
>> you plug your equipment into someone else's switch they *CAN*
>> monitor your traffic. 
> 
> Yes, I didn't say otherwise; but unless the switch is security 
> unfriendly and stupid mode settable (like you're describing), 
> They won't just be hardlining into a free port and watching
> traffic on the other ones. Not directly, anyhow. Unless either
> configuration changes are made, OR, your WAN side connection is
> tied into a hub just before that switch you wanna snoop traffic
> on. So it's computers, switch/router, hub, internet. (very basic
> for everyone reading, poohskie). Tap into HUB, snoop away.
>  
>> So you were wrong :) Still it'll give you something to spin and
>> write word walls about until your departure from this life. I'll
>> look forward to skimming them. It's a gas.
> 
> I was wrong? How is modifying a switch that might have extra
> features any different than swapping out for an outright HUB? The
> result is easier with a HUB. If you don't change default settings
> (if the switch even offers it) that switch isn't going to let you
> hardline into port 1 and watch traffic on the other ports it has. 
> 
> A switch, by default (unless you can prove me wrong here) is going
> to do exactly what I initially said. If you hardline into port 1,
> you aren't going to be sniffing traffic on ports 2,3,4,etc.
> Period. Like I ####ing said, originally. Wifi is limited too. You
> can do some sniffing, but if the wifi seperates hardline LAN from
> wifi connections; you won't be seeing the hardline comms, like I
> said, again.
> 
> Why do you even try this bull####? People can google about this
> #### themselves, dumbass.
>  

ho hum... nearly sunday morning now.. posted yesterday, no ####ing 
way he hasn't seen this reply... crickets, as I expected...

####in trolls. I tell ya. they know just enough to be dangerous and 
pass themselves off as some kind of expert to people who know less 
than they do. They seem to learn just enough to get by with newbies.

they fall on their ####ing faces when they run across a tech though! 
hahahaha.. funny ####.



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