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Old 06-27-2004, 04:34 PM   #1
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unencrypted transmissions

Often when I browse the web I receive this message:


The information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party.

How exactly do they do that? Im new to everything(including this planet you call Earth). Packet sniffing again?
 
Old 06-27-2004, 04:36 PM   #2
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Yes - it could be done my a malicious user sniffing network traffic.
 
  


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