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I felt like I had seen a number of people move to Machine in the Middle, because that's what it is anyways.


That's misleading because there always at least one machine in the middle unless your smartphones have a direct connection.


A colleague of mine says Meddler in the Middle


That’s a really neat alternative. I might start using that myself


And this (in addition to the "this is the RIGHT way and if you do it the old way you're implicitly EVIL" self-righteousness) is why I have a problem with all the pseudo-DEI language changes: They hinder communication. Instead of one universally accepted term, you now come across at least half a dozen "better" alternatives for everything, and each time have to figure out what they mean, and whether they're just a more politically correct term for something existing, or imply some kind of actual difference.


We're talking about cryptographic shorthand here for which it seems perfectly fine. You might as well complain that not all message senders are called Alice.


Alice and Bob are not inclusive


It's about being in the middle of the encrypted tunnel, not the network traffic. It's no more misleading than saying "man".


If you already now it's about an encrypted tunnel you also know it isn't literally a man.

Especially because PITM is already used in other contexts

https://www.acronymfinder.com/PITM.html


Seems way more fitting these days. There’s certainly not a person, in the middle, inspecting bytes.


Unless... we've been lied to all this time and there's an army of peons on phones hand-typing out bytes at improbable speed! Wake up sheeple!


That’s not really accurate though because a MITM might be taking place on your own machine




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