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by larvaetron 4130 days ago
> Superfish uses a third party library from a company named Komodia to modify the Windows networking stack

This is the second article I've read that states this - Superfish does no such thing.

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My (not very studied) understanding is that it used SSL Digestor:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150220003144/http://www.komodi...

installed as a LSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered_Service_Provider

"modify the windows networking stack" is not an absurd description of that.

You may find this Stackoverflow discussion interesting. Note the date.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16269624/the-truth-behin...

How do you know one way or the other? Care to enlighten us?
What doesn't it do? It is modifying the network stack by intercepting all traffic (presumably through a proxy), right?