Eavesdropping vs. sniffing

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I'm taking a coursera course, and they take pains when talking about network security to distinguish between eavesdropping and sniffing.



According to their definitions, sniffing involves reading or monitoring whole packets, whereas eavesdropping seems like it differs mostly by 1. finding incomplete packets rather than complete ones, and 2. using Ettercap in addition to technologies like tcpdump and and wireshark.



Are these definitions standard? I'm not finding a lot of definitional convergence elsewhere on the internet about these terms.






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  • Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
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  • They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
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I'm taking a coursera course, and they take pains when talking about network security to distinguish between eavesdropping and sniffing.



According to their definitions, sniffing involves reading or monitoring whole packets, whereas eavesdropping seems like it differs mostly by 1. finding incomplete packets rather than complete ones, and 2. using Ettercap in addition to technologies like tcpdump and and wireshark.



Are these definitions standard? I'm not finding a lot of definitional convergence elsewhere on the internet about these terms.






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    Congrats on taking a course to improve your knowledge!
    – Daisetsu
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  • Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
    – Daisetsu
    3 hours ago











  • They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
    – fox
    13 mins ago












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I'm taking a coursera course, and they take pains when talking about network security to distinguish between eavesdropping and sniffing.



According to their definitions, sniffing involves reading or monitoring whole packets, whereas eavesdropping seems like it differs mostly by 1. finding incomplete packets rather than complete ones, and 2. using Ettercap in addition to technologies like tcpdump and and wireshark.



Are these definitions standard? I'm not finding a lot of definitional convergence elsewhere on the internet about these terms.






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I'm taking a coursera course, and they take pains when talking about network security to distinguish between eavesdropping and sniffing.



According to their definitions, sniffing involves reading or monitoring whole packets, whereas eavesdropping seems like it differs mostly by 1. finding incomplete packets rather than complete ones, and 2. using Ettercap in addition to technologies like tcpdump and and wireshark.



Are these definitions standard? I'm not finding a lot of definitional convergence elsewhere on the internet about these terms.






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  • Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
    – Daisetsu
    3 hours ago











  • They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
    – fox
    13 mins ago












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    Congrats on taking a course to improve your knowledge!
    – Daisetsu
    3 hours ago










  • Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
    – Daisetsu
    3 hours ago











  • They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
    – fox
    13 mins ago







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Congrats on taking a course to improve your knowledge!
– Daisetsu
3 hours ago




Congrats on taking a course to improve your knowledge!
– Daisetsu
3 hours ago












Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
– Daisetsu
3 hours ago





Based on how you described it, they could be talking about the difference between active (intercepting traffic via a man-in-the-middle attack arp poison using ettercap) and passive monitoring which is whats seen incidentally like listening to a WiFi connection which you have the key for. If you would post an example of their definitions that may clear it up a bit more.
– Daisetsu
3 hours ago













They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
– fox
13 mins ago




They actually distinguish between active attacks that shape traffic vs. passive attacks that do things like observe data use and reuse cookies / credentials elsewhere.
– fox
13 mins ago










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