> active eavesdropping (e.g., monster-in-the-middle attacks)

is this standard MitM, or is it some crucially distinct variation?

Man in the Middle Wiki:

> Also known as a monster-in-the-middle,[1][2] machine-in-the-middle,[3] meddler-in-the-middle,[4] manipulator-in-the-middle,[5][6] person-in-the-middle[7] (PITM), or adversary-in-the-middle[8] (AITM) attack.

Those sources feel more than slightly contrived.

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"concepts like "man" and "woman" are deeply sexist and offensive in their culture".

Only to people who have a need to be offended.

Being offended is a core part of the American identity.

I kinda like this framing. It effectively classifies companies such as Zscaler and CloudFlare as monsters.

It's particularly funny because "monster-in-the-middle" appears to be a deliberately quirky marketing term invented by cloudflare.

Fun fact: some older articles were originally written using the term man-in-the-middle, but at some point were updated... except that the diagrams still use man-in-the-middle because search-and-replace doesn't work on images.