[HN Gopher] Upside-Down-Ternet (2006)
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       Upside-Down-Ternet (2006)
        
       Author : panic
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-09-29 09:10 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ex-parrot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ex-parrot.com)
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | Infinite fun to be had with a MITM proxy... less maliciously, it
       | reminds me of the "mobile proxies" that were common in the 2000s
       | which would resample images dynamically to save bandwidth ---
       | back then, cellular data was both slow and _extremely_ expensive.
        
       | Hikikomori wrote:
       | Did this in class many years ago, but with arp poisoning instead.
       | Also dumped images from people's webtraffic and showed them on
       | the projector. Didn't take long until lemonparty was shown to
       | everyone.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       | comment)
        
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