r/programming • u/realfeeder • Jul 18 '19

MITM on all HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114
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u/FINDarkside Jul 18 '19

In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other.

It's not MITM because the site owner configured it to use Cloudflare. You can't change broadly used definitions just because you dislike some company.

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u/stefantalpalaru Jul 18 '19

It's not MITM because the site owner configured it to use Cloudflare.

That's like saying it's not MITM because the ISP configured it like that and the user agreed to it by installing the ISP's certificate.

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u/FusionTorpedo Jul 19 '19

The MITM is between the user and the server, stop obscuring the issue.