All serious attackers are man-in-the-middle attackers (usually by tricking victims into diverting their own traffic, not literally by inserting themselves into the network path). Passive-only attackers went extinct along with the backbone-connected Sun servers that were used to launch those attacks.
I don't so much care about the rest of this analysis, but you can't call an unauthenticated TLS session "secure".
tptacek•8m ago
I don't so much care about the rest of this analysis, but you can't call an unauthenticated TLS session "secure".