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On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:17 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: |
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> > How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted |
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> > network? |
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> tcpdump |
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ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on |
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your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. |
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> > How can I keep my own http traffic private? |
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> Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, |
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> traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the |
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> server, unless there's some hub between you can them. |
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> You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet |
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> also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've |
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> never used it. |
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You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague |
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to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? |
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Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? |
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