Gender-neutral variant of man-in-the-middle. They should have just used something less controversial like master-in-the-middle.

"master" is less controversial?

To be fair, a monster is scary so it fits. Malice in the middle perhaps would have been less confusing.

> Gender-neutral variant of man-in-the-middle

Countless and countless, no, millions of male developers felt discriminated against whenever someone called it Man-in-the-middle. This went on unaccounted for for decades! Finally we’re being seen!

Not to mention all the women who were misogynisticly attacked by assuming women can’t be hackers.

Finally justice. It’s very important that we’re getting our priorities right when talking about security vulnerabilities!

I prefer the chaotic option of MITM-in-the-middle.

(Mallory-in-the-middle is OK too.)

Monkey-in-the-middle would've worked since someone could monkey with your packets and it's already an established name for a children's game

Or, you know, man-in-the-middle because that was already a correct, perfectly clear use of English.

The women developers would like to cede this gender-neutral replacement back to the men, we don't want to be included.

/s

I absolutely love monster-in-the-middle. Big round of applause to whoever thought of that.