[PLUG] Fun with IPTables

[alan]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Tim Slighter wrote:

> Some food for thought for the paranoid,  ever wondered if when you hop onto
> someone's wireless network for free, do they have an entire arsenal of
> sniffers hooked up on their wireless network and they are capturing all of
> your traffic so it can be used later?  Last time I accidentally ended up on
> someone else's wireless network without any authentication, wep, or mac
> filtering and got a DHCP address, I started wondering, suppose this is a
> trap or a home grown honey pot and they are harvesting sniffed passwords?

DefCon does this with the "Wall of Sheep".

Encryption is your friend.  (As is ssh tunneling.)

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