[Gllug] IP address changes

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Nix wrote:

> Encryption is only a defence if the man gets in the middle after the session
> has started. If he's proxying you from the start, it won't help at all :/

Yes this is true.

Reality, as has already been pointed out, is that mitm attacks are rare 
and so it's not worth putting too much effort into preventing them.

Jason
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