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Fremen · 2007-05-13 21:36:00

Here's a really good podcast on computer security. If you're an IT professional it probably won't teach you much, but it's good for students and interested laypeople. The earlier episodes are a lot better, since the later ones tend to bloat with adverts and irrelevant chat :mad: Steve gibson has the geekiest voice in the…

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#32 07-06-2007 12:12PM

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ecksor wrote:

If you think that you gain any assurance from using SSL in that environment, then you're deluding yourself. Who exactly is going to be sniffing on a local LAN in a situation that you describe that this is a serious impediment to? You're taking an "every little helps" approach, which is of course true, but you're not even sure if you're getting a little help when you have no idea what SSL implementation you're using.

to be honest even fiddler at this stage can do a mitm attack

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