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tptacek • today at 12:59 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

All serious attackers are man-in-the-middle attackers (usually by tricking victims into diverting their own traffic, not literally by inserting themselves into the network path). Passive-only attackers went extinct along with the backbone-connected Sun servers that were used to launch those attacks.

I don't so much care about the rest of this analysis, but you can't call an unauthenticated TLS session "secure".


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stingraycharles • today at 1:23 AM

> usually by tricking victims into diverting their own traffic

What does this mean practically? Getting a VPN profile installed ?

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