Packet Sniffers and Their Social Implications.
As you may be already aware of, workplace surveillance has become a widely discussed moral and ethical issue recently. The theory of monitoring workers has received both high praise and harsh criticism from virtually all members of the workforce. Recent advancements in technology have given all levels of management the ability to virtually know the whereabouts of an employee on company property at any given time. Some call it an invasion of privacy for the common worker, while others see it as a valuable tool required for effective management of a company. Workplace surveillance comes in many forms and does not require active participation from employees. You can be monitored immediately as you pick up the phone, sign on to your computer, send an email or even when you go to the bathroom. A widely discussed element of surveillance in the workplace is computer based monitoring. As the number of employees using computers has increased along with the dependence of computers, so has the need to monitor activities. The most universal (common) form of computer workplace surveillance is packet sniffing.
Although the origins of packet sniffers are unknown because the name cannot be trademarked, however, the first commercial sniffer released was the Sniffer Network Analyzer trademarked by Network Associates in 19981. Although, Network Associates are credited with the inception of the sniffer, many believe that sniffers existed long before, though used by underground hackers to break into computers compromising valuable information. Underground sniffers were among the most widely used tools by hackers due to the fact that they are difficult to detect by system administrators. Since the late nineties, sniffers have now evolved into widely used programs such as Ethereal, EtherPeek and Triticom LANdecoder321, which have graphical user interfaces (GUI) to make them easy for virtually anyone to use them.
TCP/IP sessions can be captured, however, by unauthorized personnel using devises such as IP packet sniffers (Computer Reseller News PG). ... Unlike cryptography, TCP/IP messages are commonly intercepted using sniffer packets. ...
This can be achieved with the aid numerous technologies including: Packet Sniffers: A packet sniffer is a program that can see all of the information passing over the network it is connected to. As data streams back and forth on the network, the program looks at it, or "sniffs,"" each packet. The packet is the part of the message that has been broken up. ...
To design this system the group had to determine which level they were going to use to encrypt and decrypt packets. ... It is possible to create the security on the wireless network so that anyone eavesdropping on the network cannot use a sniffer to retrieve packets of information off the WLAN. ... For instance, wireless networking using the IEEE standard 802.11 uses electromagnetic waves to communicate packets of information from one point to another. ...
Computer crime in e-business is becoming a huge, and costly problem. These crime include the unauthorized use, access, modification and destruction of hardware, software data or network resources: the unauthorized release of information: the unauthorized copying of software: denying an end user acce...
Introduction Computer crimes come in many different forms. Some crimes can so severe, they can wreck a corporation. Others can be small and merely annoying to personal computer users. There is also a wide range of computer crime offenders. Some offenders are kids who commit the act as a prank. ...
The drug comes as white powder, often mistaken for cocaine and is most often sniffed through the nose, but is also injected intramuscularly and intravenously. ... Because it comes in pre-sealed bubble packets, many think that the drug hasn't been tampered with, which isn't always the case. ...
