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The journalist forgets that tapping into the cables only works for unencrypted traffic - this is actually the reason that NSA bothered Google and others in the
by zby 13y ago
The journalist forgets that tapping into the cables only works for unencrypted traffic - this is actually the reason that NSA bothered Google and others in the first place.
- voidlogic 13y agoAnd you know the NSA hasn't been given or stolen SSL private keys of major players? Most big sites don't use forward perfect secrecy making MITM achievable.
- sneak 13y agoMITM always unambiguously refers to an active attack. That's not what they do or have ever done. It stands for man-in-the-middle. They aren't in the middle when they tap fibers. Lack of forward secrecy ciphersuites does allow for retroactive decryption upon server secret key compromise though, which is what I assume you meant.