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by scurvy 3821 days ago
Reminds me of when network card drivers would use random bits of memory to pad out minimum Ethernet frames. Oh hey, there's your sensitive data going out in an ICMP ping request.
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Do you have more info about this? Sounds crazy!
For example, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1008910

It's basically heartbleed in your ethernet driver in 2003.

Out to the boundary of your (wired) LAN.
That didn't excuse it then, and it doesn't excuse it now. Sniffing the keys to the kingdom in the clear is bad news bears.