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Well said! I'm just thankful I don't have to explain what "gender
changers" are anymore.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/05/2018 11:06 AM, Paul Wilkins
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Kind regards<br>
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Paul Wilkins<br>
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