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It's cool that we can largely "strike out" link level wiretapping from our threat models but it just means attackers move on to the endpoints. I have a wonderfu
by xyzzy123 2y ago
It's cool that we can largely "strike out" link level wiretapping from our threat models but it just means attackers move on to the endpoints. I have a wonderfully private link to google, my bank and my crypto exchange but all of those are coerced to report everything I do.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago> ... but it just means attackers move on to the endpoints. Yup but this doesn't scale anywhere near as well for the attackers.
- pyfon 2y agoExcept for countries who hist companies who hold all the endpoints.
- artursapek 2y agoMost internet traffic is cosolidated through a small number of providers like Cloudflare and AWS.
- hkt 2y agoCloudflare being, if it wants to be, an epic MITM given its control of DNS and its role as WAF. Line level surveillance barely matters now.
- FabHK 2y agoSorry, if there are N clients, and M servers, then there are N+M endpoints, but N*M links, which is a lot more.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2y agoWell all endpoints might differ but the links might rely on the exact same algorithm so you need to count distinct links
- PhilipRoman 2y agoThe link is only as strong as it's weakest... link? Anyway, given the structure of internet, I wouldn't say it is O(N*M), more like O(the number of major ISPs).