Claim

DigiNotar breach INVOLVES man-in-the-middle attack

The rogue certificates were used to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack against Gmail users in Iran.

Episode
EP 3 — DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“The hacker then took these certificates and proceeded to create a man-in-the-middle attack.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 12989–13080

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-12T17:48:19.939543+00:00

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