"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Its not easy at all to hack a wired network

Oh come off it, its dead easy as nobody puts any security on it as they
think its safe.
I bet you think linux is safe and don't bother with any extra security
either.

Dennis. Nothing is safe of and by itself.

It's the way things are put together.

But, unlike you, I have actually RUN an ISP. Not a big one, and not
recently, but yes, I DO know what security is all about and how hard it is
to tap a switched wired network without specialised hardware.

ah well, I ran (after building it) a model of some of the BT 21cn network
complete with ISP and data center.
(Nothing big, a few 80G atm switches, some server irons, a few inverse
caches, a couple of DSLAMs, some 160G wdm kit, loads of cisco kit, etc. oh
about £1M of TV broadcast kit supplied by BBC technology).
and you obviously have no idea about the hardware or you would have looked
at port mirroring and realised that the hardware is already there to tap
into a link and with little overhead.
Now run along and stop pretending you know about networks and security.