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Eavesdrop | Spy on Yuppies with Mac Packet Sniffer

Posted by Scott | August 1, 2007 .

eavesdrop mac packet sniffingHave you ever been sitting somewhere on your laptop enjoying an open wireless connection? Have you ever wondered what the other wierdos around you are looking at on their laptops?  Well, for educational purposes only of course, I’m gonna show you how to spy on the unsuspecting yuppies drinking their lowfat mocha latte’s.

Eavesdrop is a very easy application to use and it is basically a packet sniffing application that will intercept all network activity; both incoming and outgoing. This means you are able to see people’s IM conversations, emails sent and received, websites visited, and Eavesdrop even displays the pictures they are viewing from webpages. Additionally, if people are dumb enough to log on to any type of internet application on an open network, you will see their usernames and passwords as well.

I do not condone the use of this software for personal gain such as stealing peoples passwords, I’m just reporting on the types of applications that are out there. Hopefully after reading this, you will be a little more careful about the types of things you do on your laptop while connected to an open wireless connection. Especially if it’s your own wireless network in your home. ENCRYPT IT. IT’S NOT HARD. You never know…your neighbors could be intercepting everything that your doing online.

 

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As you can see from the images above, the data captured may not be exactly intuitive, but its easy enough to see from the first image the person is looking at a Google image search results page in Safari. Looking at images tab (2nd image) you can see the images that were downloaded from the images.google.com page.

Overall, Eavesdrop is a really cool app to play around with, and can be a big wake up call to those of you who think its safe to use open wireless networks.

Download Eavesdrop Packet Sniffer for Mac OS X.

Discuss Eavesdrop in the MacUtopia Forums.

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