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by penguinduck 3668 days ago
There is nothing magical about a "connection". It is not some kind of secure tunnel. There are only packets. The attacker can take part in the accepted connection that the legitimate host initiated and the server accepted, and pretend to be the server to the client and pretend to be the client to the server, as long as he has the sequence numbers, which he gets from passive sniffing.