Spot on The Screen Savers about packet sniffing. Kevin Rose shows the tool called Iris. Not only a packet sniffer, but recreates the packets and shows you the native application (web browser, even Outlook email!).

Bummer, it's apparently $1000, but there's a 15 day trial.

Some suggestions to protect against this sniffing:
- Trillian Pro, offers encryption
- Encrypt your email, using something like PGP
- Hushmail is a free, web-based encrypted email service

Leo also notes that cable modems are inherently on a LAN with your neighborhood. Depending on the setup by the cable company, you may be seeing packets destined for your neighbors. SOME cable companies are changing to *switches* to help segment the traffic, but not all. Hmmm...doubtful Adelphia is doing this...

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