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    Driftnet

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    driftnet

    Please focus on the application in the middle. It is a linux based and called Driftnet – the task of installing was easy in Ubuntu (did I tell you how I love apt-get?) What in the world is Driftnet?

    Quoted from Driftnet website

    Inspired by EtherPEG (though, not owning an Apple Macintosh, I’ve never actually seen it in operation), Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic.

    In short – it is an image sniffer and if you placed it correctly/strategically in the network, you can see all the images passing through -or in other words you’ll see what everyone in the network are watching in their browser at that time in realtime!!

    I read about it many years ago in Linux Journal and I think I have tried it once before so having the new mini-itx box with me now, I am recollecting all those interesting apps to be installed in this 60GB computer :)

    Use it at your own risk — don’t get caught sniffing images at your office’s network!