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SSLStrip Now In the Wild

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-the-marisa-tomei-kind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, who last week presented his controversial SSL stripping attacks at Black Hat Federal, appears to have released his much-anticipated demonstration tool for performing MITM attacks against would-be SSL connections. This vulnerability has been met with everything from calls for more widespread EV certificate deployment to an even more fervent push for DNSSEC."

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  1. Alternatives by jetsci · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess the question then is, what do we use as an alternative? What can we even do?

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