[saag] Re: On path Active Attackers, and Meddlers in the M iddle

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> writes:

>Going with Jon's suggestion that we have Active *In*-Path ... Access? "AIP"
>vs "AOP", but that omits the trailing "A"

We have a well-established global cybercrime industry that relies on
exploiting the gaps in things like TLS (phishing, spoofing, etc) to the point
where it's pretty much irrelevant to the attackers whether TLS gets used or
not.

At the same time we have a thousand-message thread on whether it's appropriate
to apply personal pronouns to inanimate objects in the middle.

Perhaps we could just say Non-gender-or-race-specific-personal-pronoun-in-the-
middle attack so we can get back to ignoring the real problems again.

Peter.

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