Comment by commandersaki
4 hours ago
The window of opportunity to MITM has passed. If you attempted an MITM from an easy vantage such as telco, ISP, or public wifi you'd be trivially detected as a significant portion of devices are patched, including on these unpatched macs as only the *nix commands are affected and not app bundles.
You might be detected but if, for example, you were smart enough not to MITM the same client twice after an error, I suspect a ton of people would ignore it and just assume the airport/coffee shop WiFi was flaky.
I’d also bet more things use libcurl behind the scenes than we appreciate, and that at least a few of them have things like silent updates which retry after a failure without notifying a user. I’ve seen a lot of agents which just try to periodically check in because they’re designed not to be noisy on lousy networks.