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How dangerous is it to send plain text over TCP/IP

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:13 pm    Post subject: How dangerous is it to send plain text over TCP/IP Reply with quote

Hi,

There are warnings everywhere not to send sensitive information in plain text over the internet, but why is it dangerous -- how is it physically possible for someone to intercept the packets?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please have a look at the 'Understanding Man-in-the-Middle Attacks' series:

Part 1 starts here.

It should give you a much better understanding of how one can compromise your plain-text data.
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