>What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed?
Injecting ads is a relatively harmless but hugely profitable application we are already seeing.
On the more serious side, changing news feeds has huge potential for governments. It's the perfect propaganda tool, and with advances in machine learning the cost of doing this on a gigantic scale shrinks every day.
Injecting ads is a relatively harmless but hugely profitable application we are already seeing.
On the more serious side, changing news feeds has huge potential for governments. It's the perfect propaganda tool, and with advances in machine learning the cost of doing this on a gigantic scale shrinks every day.