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Hound
06-03-2007, 01:04 PM
Let's have a hypothetical story:

There is a site where you download music while keeping a balance of around $150.00 online at all times.

Your sister wants to download a song, so you give her the password and she promptly changes it.

The password-recovery questions, while you answer them correctly, reflect your information as invalid for indetermineable reasons.

You obviously don't want the aforementioned sister squandering your money, so you'd like to use a sniffer program or device on her laptop to regain your own password (and nothing else).

Is this illegal?

If not, does anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?

I'd like to avoid spending a good deal of money on a keylog device to only have her notice and pull it out/dispose of it. So a program would be preferable.

If nothing else, does anybody know any useful reading material on this subject?

Note: Pretend you're explaining to a monkey with a lobotomy; I'm afraid that I'm not very familiar with most of the matieral regarding this subject (which is, of course, why I'm asking here!)

bwkaz
06-03-2007, 02:40 PM
You could, you know, ask her for the password.

Sigh.

Parcival
06-03-2007, 05:14 PM
Hound, before you continue to post on this forum, read this story (http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/script-kiddie.html) first.

nikodell
06-03-2007, 06:01 PM
good one|

Pafnoutios
06-03-2007, 07:27 PM
This sounds like a $150 lesson in password secrecy.

mrrangerman43
06-04-2007, 09:09 AM
Yes unless she lets you it's illegal, just ask her for the passwd. If she says no, hold her laptop for ransom:D