ferret port for bsd


March 7th, 2007

Ferret is a number of things. From their page:

Examples of data seepage is what happens when you power-on your computer. It will broadcast to the world a list the list of WiFi access-points you’ve got cached on your computer, the previous IP address you used (requested by DHCP), your NetBIOS name, your login ID, and a list of servers (via NetBIOS request) you want connections to.

Even if you then establish a VPN connection to hide everything else, you’ve already broadcasted this information to everyone on the local network.

The FERRET tool gathers this broadcasted information and correlates it. It demonstrates how much you expose to hackers.

I went ahead and did some minor modifications to the code they’ve released to get it to compile on my Mac. Seems to work, if you find bugs let me know.

Go here for a download link at the bottom of the page [and, if you're interested, future updates will be made on that page - unless it's something mindblowing]

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