On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:44:49AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > You should not be using MITM for any situation where a positive or even a > neutral disposition is intended. It is unclear at best, I regard it as > wrong. Isn't that a matter of perspective ? Whose declaration of disposition do you use ? The one of the MITM ? I can only call myself MITM if i think my intentions are evil ? How about all those middleboxes NAT/FW whose operators want to do something good for Alice&Bob ? Toerless > If I talk about an Email relay being a MITM then I am saying that changing > my character set, wrapping lines and all the really obnoxious behavior they > routinely engage in are attacks. > > > Of course on the gender neutral side, MITM attacks are traditionally > performed by Eve. And historically, many of the intercept operators on the > allied side were women. It was one of the few field combat roles they were > permitted.
