Silence on the Wire

Chapter 10. Advanced Sheep-Counting Strategies

Where we dissect the ancient art of determining network architecture and computer’s whereabouts

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Network reconnaissance and mapping is the art of exploiting a set of information disclosure vectors inherent in the Internet’s core communications protocols in order to recognize systems and networks or to identify and track potential offenders, users, customers, or competitors. It is perhaps the most developed, most widely deployed, and most significant and immediately useful application of passive data analysis to date, but it has its share of problems that affect both its accuracy and usability in certain scenarios. This is particularly true for known and tested TCP/IP passive fingerprinting techniques. ...