Wireshark
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7recommend
0warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“But that dynamism really helped with the early stages along with wireshark”
“Wireshark was very simple to use”
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“You can easily inspect the packet with tools like Wireshark or Burp Suite Professional”
“After that you will need nmap and wireshark.”
“This is how it handles TLS decryption [1], which works beautifully.”
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“submitted my first PR”
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“you get a pcap file that you can dissect using Wireshark”
“I decided to record network packets with wireshark”
“I just used a USB sniffer and wireshark.”
“so you can see the packet details like Wireshark”
The article links to this page, which was shared on HN yesterday. [1] I feel like using wireshark to look at what's being sent back and forth from Windows telemetry, when using Edge, Chrome & etc should reveal what's being sent and recieved. Using MITM SSL spoofing should be able to intercept the packets. [1] https://github.com/SmtimesIWndr/gdid-reversal
“tcpdump for ssh dump with wireshark”
“Reversed it by capturing packets with wireshark”
“But that dynamism really helped with the early stages along with wireshark”
“Wireshark was very simple to use”
“I used Wireshark to sniff out the LED and EQ packets”
“I used Wireshark to analyze various things (mostly smart home) over the years”
“I used wireshark to capture the traffic”
“closer to a MITM proxy like Proxyman than Wireshark”
> Flakey internet connection: most of current 'soy devs' would be useless. We used to make the same jokes about Googling Stackoverflow since before many users on this site were born.
“tracing stuff with Wireshark”
“I use stuff outside the app store every day (Wireshark, Ekahau, etc.)”
I used to love Zone Alarm's ability to notify me on an application's first attempt to connect to the internet, and allow me to approve or deny it. I really wish there was still such an interface today. Having said that, I absolutely despised the implementation that stole keyboard focus; if it popped up when I was typing it frequently disappeared before I head a chance to read it and I had to go into settings to try a
“You can easily inspect the packet with tools like Wireshark or Burp Suite Professional”
“After that you will need nmap and wireshark.”
“Wireshark can import those to decrypt everything.”
“This is how it handles TLS decryption [1], which works beautifully.”
“https://github.com/antmicro/wireshark-pcie-dissector”
“Spin up Wireshark and take a look at activity of Firefox.”
“but that is too generic and with a bigger learning curve.”
“Dumping local traffic with wireshark or iftop”
“TCP retransmits in Wireshark”
“In Wireshark, the latter appears as ICMPv4 packets on the lo interface”
“I ended up installing Wireshark to see why he was experiencing massive latency”
“discovered through WireShark”