[.ataraxia]

I was talking to my friend about being able to spy on people, when he mentioned something called "packet sniffing" for AIM. The way he explained it- you could use it to know exactly what someone who is chatting with you is doing, saying ..etc.

Anyone know how to do this?
Just out of curiousity

[Tepper]

I wish.. LoL.. I'm not that big of a nerd.. or at least not that devoted to the cause. I don;t feel like searching warez sites and dealing with the underworld. Oi.. crazy packet sniffing has been around forever.

[awdark]

Sure the easiest is to get Ethereal and a wifi card... connect to an open wireless hotspot and let it sniff... if they are using it you can see what website they are at, what they are reading and if its aim chats, it looks like AIM in HTML.

Why do you think I encourage people to encrypt their networks?

[res0nate]

Or install a keylogger w/out their knowledge haha. Not just AIM, but practically everything

[Johnny Sasaki]

Sure the easiest is to get Ethereal and a wifi card... connect to an open wireless hotspot and let it sniff... if they are using it you can see what website they are at, what they are reading and if its aim chats, it looks like AIM in HTML.

Why do you think I encourage people to encrypt their networks?

Imma go try it on my neighbour someday. Blame him for downloading too much stuff while im tapping on his internet.

[.ataraxia]

lol .. well i know packet sniffing is used usually for parents who want to know what their kids are doing online as they chat.

[NEVERland]

o.O...Interesting. I wanna learn how to hack. XP...

[jasonyc]

This is how the internet gets ruined.

[sosays i]

This is how the internet gets ruined.

yeah, lol

[blu_illusionz]

how exactly do u encrypt your network because i'm positively sure someone did that to me tsk tsk tsk hackers hahah sucks when ur the one being targeted lol

[cand33clouds]

o_O hacking sounds interesting...

but risky

and i dont wanna get caught =]

[res0nate]

how exactly do u encrypt your network

Log into your router and change the settings.

[.ataraxia]

http://packetstormsecurity.nl/sniffers/

[boka]

you don't want to take an interest in the wrong side of electronic security... if you're that curious, just ask them what they're doing...

[meringue]

An electronic form of stalking... My, my...

[aznxkpx88]

really wat use is knowing wat the other person is doing

[makelovenoises]

i'm curious.

what happens if ou get caught ?
seems like a hard task to do anyways

(and i noticed i just bumped this thread Lol, sorry i was surfing a persons profile and came across it)

[awdark]

I believe in summarizing how easy it is to try to raise awareness to how dangerous things can be.

See the thing about sniffing is you can only really do it locally.
Local is like the other computer on your network.
Or public places such as Starbucks or your school, I was told that the data does get encrypted even over open access points but its still best not to risk it.

The security risks isn't TOO high since I can't see what you're doing from here over the internet.
But basically once a packet sniffer is going it will see a request for lets say http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=32348 then you will see the HTML code of this page followed by jibberish for the images.

AIM is similar, it looks like HTML (not quite but similar) and everything comes through clearly. I find that scary.


Anyways back to getting caught... Legally I believe its considered gray zones in most areas. Its obviously digital trespassing but when the user doesn't encrypt their stuff its similar to someone talking on the phone loudly... you can hear everything and its the same with Wifi this is where the gray zone would be. They're blasting their wireless signal everywhere and well =\ they need to do something to protect it. Now if it were secure and they hacked it thats DEFINITELY illegal and considered digital trespassing

Either way dont do it, just be aware so the next time you have some creepy guy sitting outside your house with a laptop you know they can be using your internet and they can see everything you send over the network.

[illmatic]

Personally if I was gonna do some script kiddie stuff I prefer the man in the middle attack:) But you have to be on someone's network to do that. The man in the middle attack has a special place in my heart since it was one of the first attacks I ever learned to do.

[Xarthan]

This is how the internet gets ruined.

but hey without these interest no one would develop cool internet security featues..... o wait, i guess there would be no need for security in the first place if this didn't happen. lol