Man in the middle attacks circumventing authenticators

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2-28-2010 @ 1:39PM

Daveti said...

And I use Linux, but that doesn't make me immune to everything in the world. I can still be ARP poisoned, I can still be man-in-the-middled, and yes Virginia there are Linux and Mac viruses. The fact of the matter is that security is a non-trivial problem and you can't expect it to have a trivial solution. You can install good virus-scanning software, practice safe browsing, and yes you can use a Mac or Linux since they present a smaller (and faster moving... and armored...) target but the fact still remains that security is everyone's problem and it can't be solved by any simple fire-and-forget method.

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