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<p abp="5993">>How much access do you have to monitoring the network traffic of where the<br abp="6000">
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6002">The server is a multi-tenant web host. Standard inexpensive host on the Internet. So... none really. Not even the HTTPD server logs.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6004">>It IS your fault... (blaming the victim). For anything like this you need to<br abp="6005">
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6007">Yeah, I realize I could head this stuff off by simply authenticating and encrypting.
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6008">I am not really concerned all that much about this other than the "how" or even the "why" of it.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6010">I realize that certain folks at various points along the traversal path will have full access to the packets.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6010">But I had always assumed that these actors would be state or carrier level.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6010">At the very least, I thought that my uninteresting packets (I mean, literally just a few queries worth in the ocean of the packets traversing the net) would go without notice.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6369">What this incident has shown me is that any unencrypted browsing WILL be intercepted and analyzed. Sort of a reality check if you will.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6010">I had heard stories of people who swear they were compromised after sending an e-mail with a password in it. I always thought it was a little far fetched... but given that most SMTP is probably still not encrypted, perhaps
there is something to the stories after all.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" abp="6010">Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. I will update if I learn any more.</div>
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