<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Paul,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just go ahead and edit the Wiki page at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack</a> !</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Isaac</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 May 2018, at 2:31 PM, Mark Andrews <<a href="mailto:marka@isc.org" class="">marka@isc.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Did someone change rename Monday to Friday?<br class=""><br class="">Paul, you do realise that “Man” in “Man in the Middle” actually means “person”<br class="">based of the dictionary definition of “man”?<br class=""><br class="">2. a human being of either sex; a person.<br class=""><br class="">Mark<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 14 May 2018, at 2:20 pm, Chris Legg <<a href="mailto:chris+ausnog@legg.net.au" class="">chris+ausnog@legg.net.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Well said! I'm just thankful I don't have to explain what "gender changers" are anymore.<br class=""><br class="">On 14/05/2018 11:06 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">Kind regards<br class=""><br class="">Paul Wilkins<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">AusNOG mailing list<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" class="">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br class="">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">AusNOG mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" class="">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br class="">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">Mark Andrews, ISC<br class="">1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia<br class="">PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: <a href="mailto:marka@isc.org" class="">marka@isc.org</a><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">AusNOG mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" class="">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br class="">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>