Man in the Middle Wiki:
reply> Also known as a monster-in-the-middle,[1][2] machine-in-the-middle,[3] meddler-in-the-middle,[4] manipulator-in-the-middle,[5][6] person-in-the-middle[7] (PITM), or adversary-in-the-middle[8] (AITM) attack.
Those sources feel more than slightly contrived.
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reply"concepts like "man" and "woman" are deeply sexist and offensive in their culture".
replyOnly to people who have a need to be offended.
I kinda like this framing. It effectively classifies companies such as Zscaler and CloudFlare as monsters.
replyIt's particularly funny because "monster-in-the-middle" appears to be a deliberately quirky marketing term invented by cloudflare.
replyFun fact: some older articles were originally written using the term man-in-the-middle, but at some point were updated... except that the diagrams still use man-in-the-middle because search-and-replace doesn't work on images.
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