[mike_hearn]

Superfish is not a man in the middle, by definition. It's running on your local computer. That's not the middle. That's the start. Consider that Superfish could have just done binary patching on the browser binaries instead of fiddling the local SSL configuration ... it's put there by the computer manufacturer so they can do anything they like.

[wampus]

It's called a "man in the middle" because it intercepts connections between the source and destination. The physical location is irrelevant.