Please make it stop.

From my cryptography textbook (emphasis added):

The procedure is usually attributed to Shamir and to Massey and Omura. One drawback is that it requires multiple communications between Alice and Bob. Also, it is vulnerable to the intruder-in-the-middle attack (see Section 10.1).

Now that's a mouthful, isn't it? Intruder-in-the-middle attack eh? Who would come up with an awkward phrase like that? Well, perhaps it was someone too obsessed with the politically correct revisionism du jour to realize that he1 was making a total nincompoop out of himself. For the uninitiated, the correct term is "man-in-the-middle". Which makes sense, because the two 'm'-s form a cutesy alliteration, and the phrase is two entire syllables shorter. 1. I'm allowed to say "he" because I know the sex of the author. So there.