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MITM is pretty moot right now with TLS everywhere. Apple is taking this stand because it’s inline with their business.

Zero-rating is really bad for Apple. And by making themselves the virtual network layer, they have the ability to roll out their own last mile networks later.

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To be fair, you could make the same argument that TLS is moot because everything at the other layers (routing, application, and even hardware) is extremely vulnerable to attack. MITM is still a very real thing.

If anything makes it moot, it's not other technology; it's social engineering attacks.

The point of TLS is that every bit of network infrastructure could be compromised but your connection would still be secure as long as your own device and the end server (and the cert authority) remained clean.

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