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Re:Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and... by sp332 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @10:26AM (#6775087)
A "man in the middle attack" is not about sniffing traffic going between two other people. It's about impersonating the two people to each other - telling Alice that you're Bob, and telling Bob that you're Alice.
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Re:Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and... by tijs on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:06PM (#6777105)
Your quite right, but it's not so important to the story he is trying to tell as to warrant the reaction of the OC
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