> A little bit of thinking with my "evil hat" on leads me to believe a similar protocol aware packet inspection/modification tool could easily rewrite webpages

> A little bit of thinking with my "evil hat" on leads me to believe a similar protocol aware packet inspection/modification tool could easily rewrite webpages on the fly, looking for links to common service login forms and rewrite appropriate links and form actions to be http instead of https... That already exists in the form of sslstrip: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/