Did someone change rename Monday to Friday?

Paul, you do realise that “Man” in “Man in the Middle” actually means “person”
based of the dictionary definition of “man”?

2. a human being of either sex; a person.

Mark

> On 14 May 2018, at 2:20 pm, Chris Legg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Well said! I'm just thankful I don't have to explain what "gender changers" 
> are anymore.
> 
> On 14/05/2018 11:06 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
>> It's just dawned on me that in light of the clear gender imbalance in our 
>> industry, and by way of a shout out to much overdue #MeToo reactions to 
>> pussie grabbing malefactors, we need to move away from gender discriminatory 
>> terminology, specifically, there is no reason why it should be a Man 
>> perpetrating an insertion attack. We should recognise that the perpetrator 
>> could just as easily be a woman as a man, and that henceforth we should be 
>> calling these Person in the Middle Attacks.
>> 
>> Where you look up the Wikipedia article which describes the Alice, Bob 
>> scenario, with their communication being snooped on by the attacker Mallory, 
>> in a curious serendepity, Mallory is a non gender specific Proper Name, and 
>> can be a woman as easily as a man.
>> 
>> Man in the Middle is a purely technical concept, where there is no place for 
>> gender specification and serves no purpose but to perpetuate gender 
>> stereotypes. In light of which, henceforth, thinking people should rather 
>> refer to this vector as a Person in the Middle Attack.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Paul Wilkins
>> 
>> 
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