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Re: Facebook insecure by design
From: Jason Leschnik <leschnik () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:08:41 +1100
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
Current thread:
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Michael Thomas (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jimmy Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design William Allen Simpson (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Michael Thomas (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Patrick Sumby (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jason Leschnik (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Michael Thomas (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design William Allen Simpson (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jimmy Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jimmy Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Joel jaeggli (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Joel jaeggli (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Bill.Pilloud (Oct 04)
- OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Jay Ashworth (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Christian de Larrinaga (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Travis Biehn (Oct 05)
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