• voxel@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    messages between client and server are still encrypted tho so does it really matter

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      8 months ago

      No, because the MITM attack is the relevant government walking up to discord with a paper saying “I do what I want”

      Man in the Middle = Government subpoena

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        8 months ago

        they are not even “in the middle” but rather “at the very end”, since they’re just getting the data directly from the service provider instead

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          8 months ago

          No, they are very much in the middle. The attack occurs in the middle between sender and receiver. It doesn’t matter when the attack occurs, that is the position in the message chain that the government targets.