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Re:Captive Portals by skibz on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:25PM (#32100467)
You could certainly argue that "M" standing for "man" in this acronym is the most commonly accepted interpretation. There do appear to be a few others, though. "Monster" is mentioned second to "man", here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
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Re:Captive Portals by yunohn on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:07PM (#32102030)
I’m a completely uninterested bystander, who has no issue using “monster”.

But the Wikipedia mention links to a Cloudflare blog post from 2019, which is around the time Big Tech started renaming CS terminology.

You can’t use that as proof of long-standing usage.

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