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Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident

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341 points hlandau | 1 comments | 20 Oct 23 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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abigail95 ◴[20 Oct 23 22:43 UTC] No.37962300[source]▶
> What would a perfect attacker do?

If you had physical access to the computer, some sort of bus interception to exfiltrate data from the machine.

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whalesalad ◴[20 Oct 23 22:52 UTC] No.37962373[source]▶
extremely difficult to get physical access in a datacenter
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1. mike_d ◴[20 Oct 23 23:30 UTC] No.37962655[source]▶
The organization conducting the MitM likely has physical access to the machine already. The original post indicates the link on the network interface went down for 19 seconds, indicating a device was placed in front of the server.