That's where someone intercepts your data stream with the server.
To you, he pretends to be the server, to the server, he pretends
to be you. Basicly he's carying on a session with you an the server.
This is an old trick for getting people's ATM PIN numbers, etc...
Think of a fake ATM machine prompt that takes your PIN and card number.
It forewards the data on to the real bank, so you still get your money,
but your data has been captured for later use. (This really happend in
NY City. They stole several hundred PINs over 2 days, and made about
$400,000 in unauthorized withdrawls later.)
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0600, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> > AND I don't have to worry about the man-in-the-middle attack.
>
> Never heard of this one what is it?
>
> Chad
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