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Article #823Spoofing a LAN cable, is it possible?
From: Enrico Badella
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:35
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:35
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Recently I was at a friend's office and he started showing his new network installation. Since the company has of offices on the same block I questioned if they had a leased line, an RF LAN or whatever. The answer was 'We have a cable that runs down into the cellar and enters all the cellars of the houses that separate the two locations'. I also got a tour in the cellar and I really saw a UTP cable entering a plastic tube that ran all through the cellar into the house next door. At this point I asked my friend if he wasn't afraid of someone spoofing on his cable. At this question he turned white and said nobody had though of such an event; now he is really worried. Do you think a potential hacker/spoofer could wind some electric wire around the plastic tube and inductivly pickup was is moving on the LAN wire without physically disturbing the operation? -- Enrico Badella Internet: eb@felix.sublink.org Soft*Star s.r.l. eb@icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it Via Camburzano 9 Phone: +39-11-746092 10143 Torino, ITALY Fax: +39-11-746487
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!modus!dyna!osra!felix!eb From: eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Spoofing a LAN cable, is it possible? Message-ID: <921@felix.Sublink.Org> Date: 20 Nov 92 18:35:07 GMT Organization: Soft*Star s.r.l, Torino, Italy Lines: 23