* Posts by cleidh_mor

4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2011

Help us out readers: How would you sniff and store network traffic?

cleidh_mor

TCPdump

If you're running a Linux based wifi router, tcpdump might be available on the router, which would be ideal. Otherwise, run it on the problem PC and log the results to text file.

You didn't mention whether this was for long term analysis or troubleshooting, so it's difficult to say how much storage you'll need, but tcpdump is pretty efficient and by generating text files, compression will work well. You can also filter very efficiently with tcpdump to minimise the volume of data you are storing.

STILL TRUE: Facebook and co to handle taxpayers' ID

cleidh_mor
Facepalm

"A Free Market for Identity Providers"?

You have to be fucking joking! My identity is not a commodity to be sold.

Film studios thrash BT in Newzbin site-block test case

cleidh_mor
FAIL

Technically...

There's nothing to stop the post office opening your parcels and inspecting them either, so they _can_ inspect your postal traffic. The difference here is that they're not legally allowed to, whereas ISPs are _required_ to inspect user's traffic.

Police arrest alleged LulzSec hacker 'topiary' in Scotland

cleidh_mor
WTF?

Eh?

Arrested in Shetland, so he's transported to central London? What do the Scottish authorities have to say about that?

Something fishy there!