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Started by Enrico Badella
Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:35
Spoofing a LAN cable, is it possible?
Author: 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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