alt Hacker NewsAt the application layer you would not see the reordered bytes. However on the network you have IP beneath both UDP and TCP and network hardware is normally free to slice and reorder those IP packages however it wants.
At the application layer you would not see the reordered bytes. However on the network you have IP beneath both UDP and TCP and network hardware is normally free to slice and reorder those IP packages however it wants.
It's not. Routers are expected to be allowed to slice IPv4 packets above 576 bytes. They can't slice IPv6 and they can't slice TCP.
However, malicious middleboxes insert themselves into your TCP connections, terminating a separate TCP connection on each side of the spyware and therefore completely rewriting TCP segment boundaries.
In less common scenarios, the same may be done by non malicious middleboxes - but it's almost always malicious ones. The party that attacked xmpp.is/jabber.ru terminated not only TCP but also TLS and issued itself a Let's Encrypt certificate.