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Generalnetwork security Pin
Calin Negru1-Feb-22 9:20
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They say when you`re online, a third party can tap into your internet connection/watch your activity. How does that happen? When you`re online there is just your computer a cable connected to your computer`s network board and a computer at the other end representing the ISP. To my mind in order for someone to read your exchange of information he has to connect physically to the cable that between you and the ISP. If I force my imagination to run wild I could imagine the network board decoding the signal traveling down the network cable as requests made to the computer`s inner channels which I assume is what win sockets are.
In this case `listening` could mean that something at the end of one socket is observing what is passing through another socket. But for this to happen I imagine some kind of monitoring software would have to be installed, I suspect sockets aren`t made by default to watch one another.
Also does a networking cable transport a single stream of data? To my mind the cable frequency would have to be extremely high to permit the transition of a decent amount of data. If there are several steams of data in a cable it`s easy to imagine information coming from one stream being illegaly read/stolen on the end user computer by a piece of software and sent back towards the malitious person through another stream.
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Generalhow to handle my old modem? Pin
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