On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:21:43 Andy Green wrote: > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:41:55 Andy Green wrote: > >> Another practical issue is that most IM traffic is encrypted nowadays > > > > Here in Spain the most popular IM system is MSN Messenger and it's not > > encrypted. > > Just a man-in-the-middle attack you'll be able to read all the > > conversations And it's almost impossible to defend yourself against those > > type of attacks :-) > > Well I guess they would say most email goes out unencrypted too. Still > clearly that is good to know if you planned to use MSN Messenger in a > Coffee Shop type scenario using unencrypted Wifi... you just need a > man-drinking-cappuchino-with-tcpdump attack to read it all then... > > -Andy That's what I wrote earlier, there's no point of sniffing all the traffic, you'll find out NOTHING -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
