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SSL Stripping

That was, however, until Moxie Marlinspike came along. Marlinspike is now better known as the creator of the secure messaging app Signal, but he originally made a name for himself by releasing a hacking tool called sslstrip. (SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, the predecessor technology to Transport Layer Security.)

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