But it could have been so much higher that, well, I'm sure that these guys were doing some packet sniffing, and they saw the data in the clear.

Firebug can do packet sniffing?

Subject: FIOS WEP crack - say that three times fast - no packet sniffing necessary.

Methods of reverse-engineering a protocol include packet sniffing and binary decompilation and disassembly.

More advanced dosnets use technologies such as SSL connections and cryptography to prevent packet sniffing, data inspection, and analysis.

ARP spoofing, a technique which can also facilitate packet sniffing on switches.

Packet capture (also sometimes referred to as "packet sniffing") is the monitoring of data traffic on a computer network.

LEO: They're probably using some sort of packet sniffing or, you know, actually on streaming audio it's a different port.

SNMP versions 1 and 2c are subject to packet sniffing of the clear text community string from the network traffic, because they do not implement encryption.

Think wardriving, packet sniffing, tresspassing, copyright infringement, dropping a name so they can claim they aren't using someone else's products without permission, etc.