Firewalls: prevalence of sniffing ?

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(July 1994)

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Subject:	prevalence of sniffing ?
From:	Wolfgang Henke <wolfgang @ whnet . com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 1994 20:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
To:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com
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Today's NYT carried an article suggesting that security has been 
compromised on a large number of Internet hosts. Further suggesting 
that only about 5% of sniffing attacks are detected. 

Is there some truth to these claims?

Wolfgang

Wolfgang Henke <wolfgang @
 whnet .
 com>
http://www.whnet.com/wolfgang/

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