Re: How to obtain a yahoo username off a computer

From: Anders Reed Mohn <anders_rm(at)utepils.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 04:55:57 EDT

>Hello! We have a security issue and need to know who is using a

Three words for you: CAN OF WORMS

Run this by your legal department before doing anything.

That said, people have come up with a variety of smart solutions, of various complexity.

However, if you know

1. who he is.
2. what computer he is using,

there is no easier way than to sniff packets on the network, and see whether he/she connects to a Yahoo server (and in one or more of these packets, the address will be shown in plaintext). That is, unless you have a proxy server, which can log the full requests.

Cheers,
Anders RM :)

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Received on Thu Jun 12 12:20:09 2003