document updated 12 years ago, on Jan 14, 2013
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BPI+ is an mostly effective protection against sniffing
possible attack methods
- if the cable modem company has configured things so BPI / BPI+ aren't used, then EVERYONE is vulnerable to sniffing
- users with modems that don't support the newest standards (eg. DOCSIS 3.0) will force the CMTS to fallback to older (less secure)
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