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hootinholler

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5. A true man in the middle attack can do much more than that
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:38 PM
Mar 2014

Depending on the investment made in the sophistication of the 'middle man' software. In theory it could block your re-tweet and make it appear to you that it went out just fine, or edit your re-tweet to make you look foolish.

So tracking via these methods is a closer scrutiny than simply monitoring all traffic going across a network node.

It's not cookie manipulation doing that, was my point.

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