[Bob]

i guess i could look up the term but in laymen’s terms what is packet sniffing?

'Packet sniffing' refers to snooping on someone else's traffic between them and their network or access point. An Ethernet card on a hard-wired network set to 'promiscuous' mode will see all of the packets going across the network. I believe that a wireless card can do the same for traffic between a user and his access point.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

ty for this information :)