Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] reconstruct captured data?

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From: "Mack" <RAGAN_DAVIS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:14:05 -0400
Cool! I'll give it a try and post my results

thanks,
mack

On 4 Sep 2003 at 20:11, Darren Forster wrote:

> 
> Mack,
> 
> Yes you can do it, you have to go to tools and select follow tcp
> stream.
> 
> This will extract the data sent within a specific TCP session.
> Save the file to another file.
> Then open file in wordpad or similar and remove the header fields so
> that the first characters in the file are : GIF......
> 
> Save this file and then open it up in any image viewer.
> Do the same for jpeg files... I can't remember what jpeg files start
> with but it should be obvious when you view the TCP stream.
> 
> Let me know how you get on!
> 
> Darren
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> Subject: [Ethereal-users] reconstruct captured data?
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> 
> Question...
> 
> Legal issues aside --
> Is it possible to reconstruct data that's been captured?  For
> instance, if someone is suspected of trafficing child pornography,
> would it be possible to take captured data from that machine and
> reconstruct an image?
> 
> thanks!
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