[AusNOG] Person in the Middle Attacks

[Paul Wilkins]

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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