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What's "safer" (or less safe) about different transport protocols, when you're carrying Internet traffic?
by xorcist 11y ago
What's "safer" (or less safe) about different transport protocols, when you're carrying Internet traffic?
- bigiain 11y agoIt take a somewhat more privileged network position to MITM a 4G connection from your phone than "some guy with a wifi pineapple" impersonating some wifi base station your phone already trusts. It's easy enough to set up a wifi radio which says: "You wanna connect to 'Netgear'? Or 'Starbucks Free Wifi'? Sure - I can be that for you!". At least if I'm using 4G at Starbucks you'd need to be sitting on a backbone or in front of redtube^h^h^h^h^h^h^h wikipedia.com's servers to MITM me...