On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:02:21PM -0600, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > I didn't get there in time to actually plug anything in but I was left > wondering how often there are hostile computers at the InstallFests? We > all know that there are plenty of distrovution versions that have > mandatory patch lists. How often does say, someone bring their computer > and behind everyone's back run something hostile to either catch passwords > in eth traffic or just try to root someone's box? I've never heard of anyone using a machine to make active attacks at a TCLUG installfest and I would expect any such activity to be detected fairly quickly. Packet sniffers show up fairly often, but that falls into the "don't send plaintext passwords or other sensitive information over a network that isn't 100% trusted" category. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss