[AusNOG] Person in the Middle Attacks

[Chris Legg]

Well said! I'm just thankful I don't have to explain what "gender 
changers" are anymore.

On 14/05/2018 11:06 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> It's just dawned on me that in light of the clear gender imbalance in 
> our industry, and by way of a shout out to much overdue #MeToo 
> reactions to pussie grabbing malefactors, we need to move away from 
> gender discriminatory terminology, specifically, there is no reason 
> why it should be a Man perpetrating an insertion attack. We should 
> recognise that the perpetrator could just as easily be a woman as a 
> man, and that henceforth we should be calling these Person in the 
> Middle Attacks.
>
> Where you look up the Wikipedia article which describes the Alice, Bob 
> scenario, with their communication being snooped on by the attacker 
> Mallory, in a curious serendepity, Mallory is a non gender specific 
> Proper Name, and can be a woman as easily as a man.
>
> Man in the Middle is a purely technical concept, where there is no 
> place for gender specification and serves no purpose but to perpetuate 
> gender stereotypes. In light of which, henceforth, thinking people 
> should rather refer to this vector as a Person in the Middle Attack.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
>
>
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