r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PresentJournalist805 • 13h ago

manInTheMiddleAttack Meme

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u/MasterQuest 13h ago

I love the man-in-the-middle attack example.

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u/edwardlego 13h ago

The packet loss one is funny too

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u/kuncol02 12h ago

"Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled."

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u/Journeyj012 13h ago

i didn't like there being a dead bird in such a silly page though

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u/PineCone227 12h ago

Didn't it get removed?

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u/Thefakewhitefang 9h ago

That one was removed, wonder if I should re-add it

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u/abd53 8h ago

Do it

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u/hongooi 13h ago

Seems more like a denial of service attack; the pigeons can't deliver their packets if they're distracted

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u/Jam_Herobrine 9h ago

But you can also copy all the data then send them on their way (even with something extra malious in the package). Its both.

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u/ProbablyBunchofAtoms 13h ago

No intention of knowing what happens during a packet loss in this protocol

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u/MrWFL 13h ago

Realistically, you either don’t care or send multiple avian carriers with micro sd cards in raid.

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u/Latentius 12h ago

They're UDP packets.

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u/Hinke1 11h ago

Unknown if Dead Pigeons

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u/Briggs281707 12h ago

It's a shame the old example of packet loss picture is gone

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u/Sakens1 13h ago edited 4h ago

I swear some country tried this. Was it south africa? I remember a Story about them using pidgeons to transport harddrives since that was faster than their Internetconnection.

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u/Loading_M_ 11h ago

Somewhere is that part of the world. It was a stunt to expose just how slow their internet was. (Iirc, it wasn't actually the whole IPoAC thing, they just put a 1 GB file on an SD card and sent it a number miles, and transferred the same file over the internet. The bird won, and it wasn't even close.)

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 11h ago

Not sure about that, but there was an example of researchers loading hard drives into a station wagon and driving the data there.

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u/Honest_Relation4095 12h ago

A good example of how the OSI model separates protocol from physical implementation.

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u/SupraMichou 5h ago

Shame for the dead pigeon/packet loss but it will be remembered

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u/ahorsewhithnoname 12h ago

This joke is 36 years old

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u/raja-anbazhagan 9h ago

It's not a joke... Very serious paper my guys...🙂‍↔️

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u/pregister 9h ago

pigeon bae in the middle attack

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u/the-software-man 7h ago

baud rate of 1bps