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What could be achieved with a MitM attack on an information-only site?
by pbreit 12y ago
What could be achieved with a MitM attack on an information-only site?
- MichaelGG 12y agoFinding out what someone is interested in. Search queries or specific articles. Determining their browser information. If the site is particularly trusted (say, a news site), misleading users into trusting another party. If CNN ran an article about how adding some SSL cert to your trust store would make YouTube faster, a lot of people would do it. Or you could directly attack the user by providing false information.