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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:51AM from the not-the-marisa-tomei-kind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, who last week presented his controversial SSL stripping attacks at Black Hat Federal, appears to have released his much-anticipated demonstration tool for performing MITM attacks against would-be SSL connections. This vulnerability has been met with everything from calls for more widespread EV certificate deployment to an even more fervent push for DNSSEC."

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Re:Alternatives (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:58AM (#26957397)

I guess the question then is, what do we use as an alternative? What can we even do?
IP over Avian Carriers [faqs.org]! I'd like to see them do a man in the middle attack on PIGEONS!

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Re:Alternatives (Score:5, Funny)

by jetsci ( 1470207 ) writes: on Monday February 23, 2009 @11:00AM (#26957421) Homepage Journal

It's called a shotgun.

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Re:Alternatives (Score:2, Funny)

by jetsci ( 1470207 ) writes: on Monday February 23, 2009 @11:09AM (#26957503) Homepage Journal

But did he get the combination number to her chastity belt? I haven't actually seen the thing but it must exist since I can't get anywhere near there...

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Re:Alternatives (Score:3, Funny)

by Lostlander ( 1219708 ) writes: on Monday February 23, 2009 @11:32AM (#26957749)

Watch out for Packet Loss [wikipedia.org] It can be quite high in certain areas especially if you're rural. Also be aware of Hackers [wikipedia.org]

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All your files have been destroyed (sorry). Paul.