Re: Is the cable system insecure?

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:26:35 -0700, Nonapeptide@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just stumbled across a blurb in a networking book that said that the
infrastructure for cable internet access is slightly insecure. The
allegation was that since all cable drops in an area trace back to a
distribution node (which in turn make their way to the head end)
someone on the same distro node could, with some "technical
prowess" (direct quote from the source) could eavesdrop on your
communications. Is this true?

How old is the network book. Since you are a Cincinnati area
RoadRunner customer, I assume your Motorola is set for encription.

As I misunderstand it, the cable modem to head end is encripted.
Since you are a Cincinnati area RoadRunner customer, I assume your
Motorola cable modem is set for encription.

If you were to look in the cable modem web page and see something like
Initialize Baseline Privacy Done, then it is encripted.

Guessing http://192.168.100.1 would be the cable modem web page.
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