OT: How secure is my connection

I live an appartment in a basement of a home. Now the landlord had
cable outlets in the basement already. I called Rogers and got RHSI.

Ok can my landlord have a router/firewall box on their side of the
house before my connection hits the outside to filter out the
connection in anyway ? How secure is my transmissions through this
connection ? Can he listen to my connection after it leaves my modem
but the signal has to go through my landlord side of the house before
it hits box outside ?

Any comments would be appreciated.

Re: OT: How secure is my connection

jhu wrote:
> I live an appartment in a basement of a home. Now the landlord had
> cable outlets in the basement already. I called Rogers and got RHSI.
>
> Ok can my landlord have a router/firewall box on their side of the
> house before my connection hits the outside to filter out the
> connection in anyway ? How secure is my transmissions through this
> connection ? Can he listen to my connection after it leaves my modem
> but the signal has to go through my landlord side of the house before
> it hits box outside ?
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>

he can read change, block all your packets

Re: OT: How secure is my connection

On Nov 11, 8:31 am, goarilla <"kevin DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be">
wrote:
> jhu wrote:
> > I live an appartment in a basement of a home. Now the landlord had
> > cable outlets in the basement already. I called Rogers and got RHSI.
>
> > Ok can my landlord have a router/firewall box on their side of the
> > house before my connection hits the outside to filter out the
> > connection in anyway ? How secure is my transmissions through this
> > connection ? Can he listen to my connection after it leaves my modem
> > but the signal has to go through my landlord side of the house before
> > it hits box outside ?
>
> > Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> he can read change, block all your packets

Care to explain what sort of adapter card is needed (maybe something
along the lines of a TV Tuner) ? I mean how does one take a bare
coaxial cable and start listening to the signals ?

Re: OT: How secure is my connection

jhu wrote:
> On Nov 11, 8:31 am, goarilla <"kevin DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be">
> wrote:
>> jhu wrote:
>>> I live an appartment in a basement of a home. Now the landlord had
>>> cable outlets in the basement already. I called Rogers and got RHSI.
>>> Ok can my landlord have a router/firewall box on their side of the
>>> house before my connection hits the outside to filter out the
>>> connection in anyway ? How secure is my transmissions through this
>>> connection ? Can he listen to my connection after it leaves my modem
>>> but the signal has to go through my landlord side of the house before
>>> it hits box outside ?
>>> Any comments would be appreciated.
>> he can read change, block all your packets
>
> Care to explain what sort of adapter card is needed (maybe something
> along the lines of a TV Tuner) ? I mean how does one take a bare
> coaxial cable and start listening to the signals ?
>

a modem and a NIC in promiscous mode is enough
if the modem is just a layer 1/2 device