From: Larry Platzek (larryp@inow.com)
Date: Mon Apr 12 1999 - 20:53:46 CEST
I would like to have sniffit availabe to use as a tool.
Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Michele Andreoli wrote:
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:49:08 +0000
> From: Michele Andreoli <andreoli@pisoft.it>
> Reply-To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> Subject: [mu PROGRESS] sniffit for muLinux
> Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:30:05 +0200 (CEST)
> Resent-From: mulinux@lists.linux.it
>
> Hi, folk! A lot of nice english follow ...
>
> This was'nt to do, maybe, but I have stripped some "unuseful" C code
> from sniffit, the full-screen ncurses part, of course [ or "of ncurses"? ].
>
> You know "sniffit"? A very dangerous program. I now know his
> mephistophelic power!
>
> With this command:
>
> # sniffit -p 23 -a -t 192.168.1.1
>
> on client side (192.168.1.2) and telnetting to server, I saw my password
> flying on the screen!
>
> With this command:
>
> # sniffit -p 21 -a -t 192.168.1.1
>
> I saw my e-mail bodies & headers around.
>
> Ok, this is a "moral" question: many Linux distros comes with "sniffit",
> but sniffit on a trasportable Linux is a weapon. Using sniffit in a LAN
> you can log any passord, e-mails, etc.
> On the other hand, a tool like that can be useful for test and demonstrate
> the unsafeness of TCP networks. A lot of pedagogy :)
>
> This "sniffit" binary is about 30k.
> LO VOLETE VOI? Do you want "sniffit"?
>
> Michele (Michael, Miguel, Mikail - a male name)
> --
> Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma
> non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative?
> -- Woody Allen
>
>
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