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[John J. Macey]

Michael,

I am just checking all my Links. Let me know what happens. I moved from 
over there to over here.

I just, also went to Backbox 4.0.
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On 11/03/2014 02:56 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> On 11/02/2014 02:46 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
>> Dandy, but looking at source code tells a nonprogrammer (me) little.
>>
>> I guess I'll just coast along with https for the important stuff even
>> tho I've read that it can be spoofed.
>>
> I only read source code when I have to figure out obscure driver error 
> conditions on garbage code.  Or morbid curiosity.
>
> Really what i mean is seeing what is opening sockets on your box and 
> transmitting data.  Use of "iftop", tcpdump, wireshark, or other 
> applications will show you this in the way of open socket/port 
> connections.  Use of "ss" or "netstat" with various flags (that I've 
> posted before for Havens) to see what is opening listening sockets or 
> establishing connections out.  From there you can examine the packets, 
> might be amazed to see readable ascii flying past in the network data 
> payloads.
>
> Used to be fun to sit on the office switch on a span/monitor port 
> doing network diagnostics when you begin to see people's credentials 
> coming across too.  Learned what dsniff was for then for some fun 
> quite early on in my career to harvest credentials of my buddies to 
> torment.  ;)
>
> Started enforcing SSL and encryption for myself shortly after.
>
> -mb
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