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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by ZenoArrow on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:56AM (#15891201)
> "where the user is not paying attention"

What signs should the user be paying attention to?

Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by cm2187 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:20AM (#15891263)
The https lock logo. If it is there the interception mentioned in the link is impossible.
Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by ZenoArrow on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:06PM (#15892919)
How so? Effectively with a MITM attack the attacker becomes a router. Users don't connect to sites directly, the attack can be made transparent at the user level.
Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by cm2187 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @03:51PM (#15893430)
The only way one can MITM an https connection is by terminating the https connection at the level of the attacker and presenting an http connection to the user, hoping he won't notice the absence of the green https lock.

The attacker cannot serve to the victim a valid certificate for facebook.com unless the facebook.com private key or a CA has been compromised.

Alternatively the attacker could try a close enough domain (facebooks.com, or something) that it controls and for which it can get valid certificates, and redirect the victim hoping the user won't notice the slight difference in domain name.