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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
