[Southack]

"In what form, exactly, do they look at it anyway?"

Sniffers come in different forms. They can show plain text, ascii codes, binary, and hex.

Not that pointing such things out will sway your closed mind, anyway...

[A.J.Armitage]

Sniffers come in different forms. They can show plain text, ascii codes, binary, and hex.

Which doesn't necessarily show any information about the content.