On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> > 
> > That still sounds like it is running on one of the end points
> > (client).  In order to do that the end point has to have already been
> > compromised.   That's very different from manipulating the
> > communications path between two secure end points.
> 
> If you see the computer that the game client runs on as an end-point
> then yes, you are correct.   If, however, you look at the game
> client as an end-point then it is an MitM attack.

It's still not a MITM, because even if you consider the game client
the end point, then it's the endpoint itself that's been compromised.
What you have is a trojan, plain and simple.

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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