On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas<mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise.
That's where the X509 certificate comes in. A man in the middle would not have the proper private key to impersonate the Facebook server that the certificate was issued to.
My understanding of his statement is that Facebook itself is the MITM,
collecting all our personal information. Too true.
I assume that any MITM is actually going to try and prevent our data from making it to the end point i.e the real attacker. -- Regards, Jason Leschnik. [m] 0432 35 4224 [w@] jason dot leschnik <at> ansto dot gov dot au<jason.leschnik@ansto.gov.au> [U@] jml974@uow.edu.au