People that have cable television often have their internet service piggyback on that cable.
Somehow that strikes me as a bus-topology, and users have to share the available bandwidth
with others on that segment. So, with that in mind, doesn't it stand to reason that installing a network analyzer on your box and placing your NIC in promiscuous mode, that it would be quite easy to monitor traffic of that cable segment. Are these inherent weaknesses of cable, and are there safeguards to protect users against such abuse?
Just wondering...

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