30+ years experiance. Focused on C# since 2001. My day job is C#, Web/Win, and MS Dynamics. I also work on a few side projects with AI/ML, mostly around compilers and coding tools.
I think it was early versions of Amazon that submitted your userid and password unencrypted over the web. So you could snif traffic on your machine and see what was coming through, and see your user id and password show up... as well as anyone else's that happened to come through your machine.
It was pretty fun back then, back when even cell phones and wireless phones were not using encryption. So you could listen in to all of the calls in your neighborhood using a $200 scanner from RadioShack... if you knew which resistors to remove to open up those frequencies.
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I think it was early versions of Amazon that submitted your userid and password unencrypted over the web. So you could snif traffic on your machine and see what was coming through, and see your user id and password show up... as well as anyone else's that happened to come through your machine.
It was pretty fun back then, back when even cell phones and wireless phones were not using encryption. So you could listen in to all of the calls in your neighborhood using a $200 scanner from RadioShack... if you knew which resistors to remove to open up those frequencies.