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I was given the task of finding all modems at my companies location.

Did someone neglect to keep an accurate inventory of equipment? Or is there reason to believe that someone is using their personal modem?

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Re: Re: Help With Custom War Dialer
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Mar 11, 2004 at 18:05 UTC

    ... or at < $20.00 USD are people expensing them and hooking them up themselves, or are people running their phone cord from the wall jack into the back of the computer they just ordered, and then to their phone.

    There are many validcommon ways this can happen. Usually something like this is used to back up a policy decision.

    --MidLifeXis

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Re: Re: Help With Custom War Dialer
by Perimus (Novice) on Mar 11, 2004 at 19:26 UTC
    More likely that a security manager is wondering how many potenteial PC-ANYWHERE contact points might exist behind their firewall
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      WiFi Access points are far more of an issue these days. For a trivial amount a manager can have the printer where he wants and not even have to call the IT people. Bang goes your security policy.

      War walking is far easier and a lot harder to trace. With war dialing the phone company will have a record of the who made the call and then it is just a case of back tracking. True it may be many steps but there is probably some sort of trail.

      Unless a network is running intrusion detection finding a new node on the network will be hard and if the person knows enough to hide what they are doing almost impossible.

      Just a couple of paranoid thoughts
      UnderMine

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