Technique
technique:man_in_the_middle
Also: MITM
Interception of game traffic between a client and server so packet values can be changed before forwarding.
Interception of game traffic between a client and server so packet values can be changed before forwarding.
“He’s doing this at the packet level, sort of like a man-in-the-middle.”
Interception arrangement in which a supposedly encrypted communications service can access or archive users’ messages.
“Why would you have a man-in-the-middle of an encrypted thing?”
“there were ... people making man-in-the-middle encrypted”
Modern term the narrator uses to characterize the authorities’ computer-communication data taps.
“I guess the term we might use today is man-in-the-middle or even spyware.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | USES | Manfred | Derived | 7 |
| incoming | USES | ANOM | Derived | 146 |
| incoming | USES | Eli | Derived | 169 |
Manfred USES Man-in-the-middle
Jack characterizes Manfred’s packet-level manipulation as being similar to a man-in-the-middle technique.
Derived Confidence 92% · Jack Rhysider EP 7 Details
“He’s doing this at the packet level, sort of like a man-in-the-middle.”
ANOM USES Man-in-the-middle
Anom secretly added a ghost contact to every conversation and sent it a copy of each message, functioning as a man-in-the-middle surveillance mechanism.
Derived Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom basically created a ghost contact that was added to every conversation, and it received a blind carbon copy, a BCC, of every message sent across the platform.”
Eli USES Man-in-the-middle
Eli described a technique in which the hackers disconnected an existing user, impersonated the system, and captured the user's login credentials.
Derived Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Then we’d knock them off while they were connected, and then sit there watching them. In other words, put us in their place”