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Broadband-pushers expand user piggyback rides on private Wi-Fi

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Re: Spoofing and malware

"Quite what you'd gain from this is debatable though.2

MITM attack. Modifying page HTML as it is downloaded in order to inject malware. The expectation would not be to infect everyone - just those who are technically or socially vulnerable would be sufficient payback.

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