Avoiding Problems with Clear-Text Services
Transmissions between your client machine and the server (in applications such as Telnet, email, and HTTP) might seem secure to you; after all, your passwords are hidden, and everything travels in tiny packets of data that flow out onto the network along with many millions of other tiny packets. Who could have the patience to apply the networking equivalent of a wiretap and piece together the fragments of an interesting transaction?
They’d have to be on the same network segment as your LAN or the LAN at the opposite end—or at some trunk service provider along the way—and they’d have to possess stealth and equipment befitting James Bond. And even if they did, they’d have to eavesdrop on many different ...
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