[Gllug] SFTP Server

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:37, Doug Winter wrote:
> And if it hasn't, and you are on a switched network (which pretty much
> everyone is now), then they can't sniff you from somewhere else.

I would disagree with both these assumptions.

Many places are still using (possibly legacy) hubs, or a combination of
hubs connected to switches - for example we have only recently thrown
out some of our (at the time super-duper-fast <:) 100 Mbps hubs, but for
space rather than performance reasons. I suspect many places still have
hubs in service where performance isn't an issue.

In any case, even if you do have switches they only prevent "trivial"
packet capture - you can indeed be sniffed - see my earlier reply to
this thread. 

Simon

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