Talk:Bar mitzvah attack

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13 years old?

The paper doesn't explain the name anywhere, but presumably this is called the "bar mitzvah" attack because the RC4 vulnerability it uses is 13 years old, the same age as the age for a bar mitzvah? -- Impsswoon (talk) 01:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the reasoning given at http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ssl-tls-suffers-bar-mitzvah-attack-/d/d-id/1319633 --198.103.167.20 (talk) 19:14, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnote needed

Per Fiamma Nirenstein Terror: the new anti-semitism and the war against the West 2005 Page 193 "The second one to be collected on is Ziad Muhammed Das, commander of a group of Tanzim who planned and carried out the bar mitzvah attack in Hedera. Six victims because of him. The last one, Amar Qadam, is without further details, ..." - a hatnote is required on this article. Maybe a rethink about titling is required too? In ictu oculi (talk) 07:49, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]