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We deleted this tweet earlier today. Thanks to everyone who fact checked our statement and reached out to notify us about the mistake! A correction has been posted here: https://tw…

Yes. Sorry for the confusion. The original tweet has now been removed and a correction has been posted instead.

We first tried to post replies with corrected information, but it didn't seem to help. The tweet has now been deleted and a correction tweet has been posted instead.

The PCAP in the referenced tweet was created using PolarProxy, which decrypts and re-encrypts TLS traffic while saving the decrypted traffic to a PCAP file.

MitM'ing the traffic using a trusted root CA allows TLS traffic to be decrypted, even if perfect forward secrecy is used. That's what we did to produce the decrypted PCAP shown in …

You are completely right. The traffic was sent as TLS encrypted HTTP/2 traffic to Microsoft. We decrypted it using PolarProxy in order to see what was transmitted. The screenshot i…

You are correct. This traffic was not generated by typing text into the "run box", it was generated by typing text into the "start menu box". We are very sorry for the confusion th…

The purpose of the "Great FIrewall of China" is to censor the Internet, i.e. the intention of this MITM doesn't seem to be to covertly spy on the University user's searches. A self…

New findings regarding the Chinese MITM of GitHub.com can be found here: http://netresec.com/?b=1328C6B Turns out the guy who uploaded the packet capture file was @chenshaoju