From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 20:28:36 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: variations on an attack
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Jiri Baum wrote:
 
> To start a new sub-thread: what if the man in the middle is actually
> a behaviour-modifying parasite? At that stage even a physical meeting
> won't do you much good (the parasite may be otherwise asymptomatic).
 
That wouldn't quite work since the host would notice the parasite in the
middle and could then work out countermeasures.  An important part of a
MITM attack is escaping notice.
 
What if one night the man in the middle drugged you, kidnapped you, placed
you inside a virtual reality machine, replaced your body with a clone, and
established a link between the VR machine and the clone so that you
experience everything the clone experiences and the clone does everything
you intend to do?  Can you prove this has not already happened?

 - the Mad Scientist in the Middle

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