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Yeah, it increases the attack surface of mitm attacks to your network from the local os level.
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Doesn't affect app bundles though, only *nix commands. This'd be detected pretty quickly, at least by the significant portion of patched devices.
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Unless you're clever enough to only poison user agents known to be macOS and CLI. You'd probably get by.

xz-tools was only caught because it had a bug causing slow startups and someone was micro-benchmarking Postgres and decided to dive in further.

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One person, at that particular time. The person and the task were also a couple standard deviations away from the norm, the world was incredibly lucky.
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The cert is provided before the user-agent string is
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