<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>For whatever it&apos;s worth, this idea is at least 15 years old; it was a L0pht project that Mudge demo&apos;d at Pumpcon in &apos;97. If I&apos;m remembering it right, it was a Palm device with Ethernet rigged to it and a modem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/pwnie/</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fabricode</author><text>Perhaps we need to move to policy of allowing only known mac addrs on internal networks.  But maybe even this would be insufficient since one could sniff packets in order to steal someone else&apos;s valid mac address.  That too would be insufficient since you can get the mac address off of the menu for most VOIP phones, and off the backsides of of other networked items, ...&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there is no defense against this kind of attack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/pwnie/</url><text></text></story>