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MIG-in-the-Middle (2012)

• smacktoward 7y ago
  > Article's author note: As Zooko commented, Ross Anderson admitted in the second edition of his book that he recently discovered this history is unfounded.
• mcnichol 7y ago
  This actually sounds like a replay attack. Thanks for the link to he blog article.
  • mjevans 7y ago
    It's similar but different. This is more of form of spoofing that relies on a proxy/mirroring. It isn't strictly cloning in the sense that most would think but it is in a literal sense as a 'victim' is used to provide authentication credentials (in real time).
    • hoppla 7y ago
      Like the relay attack against car keys
• zoomablemind 7y ago
  It reads more like a convoluted screenplay pitch. Suspense of disbelief written in all caps all over the South African radar screens. Meanwhile, the laden MiG-21s almost mowing the lawns with their deadly payload at low alt approach. Hardworking Soviet "advisors" painstakingly filtering out RF interference, noise, and mixing in Doppler shit and beaming the IFF code back over to the war beasts that those fearless MiGs are, while at the same time selectively jamming the South African's own comms... I get that. I don't get why and how did this obviously retracted story make the HN first page?