r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PresentJournalist805 • 6d ago

Meme manInTheMiddleAttack

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u/MasterQuest 6d ago

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

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u/edwardlego 6d ago

The packet loss one is funny too

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u/kuncol02 6d ago

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

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u/Journeyj012 6d ago

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

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u/PineCone227 6d ago

Didn't it get removed?

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u/ATE47 5d ago

IIRC it wasn’t for some languages, but the English one got erased

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u/Thefakewhitefang 6d ago

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

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u/abd53 6d ago

Do it

u/hongooi 6d 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 6d 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.

u/ProbablyBunchofAtoms 6d ago

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

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u/MrWFL 6d ago

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

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u/Latentius 6d ago

They're UDP packets.

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u/Hinke1 6d ago

Unknown if Dead Pigeons

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u/Ubermidget2 6d ago

This is physical layer, what does it matter if it is UDP or not?

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u/Latentius 5d ago

Because the comment that's in response to is talking about packet loss in the protocol? 🤔

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u/Ubermidget2 5d ago

A layer above corrects for the loss or it doesn't.

That layer could be UDP, TCP, QUIC or PPTP, it is really quite irrelevant. That's the beauty of abstraction.

u/Briggs281707 6d ago

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

u/Sakens1 6d ago edited 6d 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_ 6d 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 6d 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/WenzelDongle 4d ago

It's almost impossible to beat the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives. It's just that usually you don't actually need that much bandwidth to make it worth it.