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benzinschleuder on June 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to a...

Probably all "slots" would be "occupied" and everybody gets the attacker's sent file, iiuc.

0x0 on June 27, 2017 [–]

Or the attacker only needs to monitor the last free slot to see what shows up?

benzinschleuder on June 27, 2017 | [–]

Seems to work both ways. Receive random file from unknown people or send chosen file to unknown people?

EDIT: was just explained in other comment by meejah, thanks! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649727#14650551)

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