mitmproxy VS sslstrip

This statement gives a false sense of security. You can use a transparent proxy, like mitmproxy, to view HTTPS traffic - https://mitmproxy.org/. https://reedmideke.github.io/networking/2021/01/04/mitmproxy-openwrt.html

You'll need to install mitmproxy and set it up on your computer and iOS. I won't go into too much detail here on how to do this, but there are plenty of guides available. This is a pretty good one: https://nadav.ca/2021/02/26/inspecting-an-iphone-s-https-traffic/

TIL this goes back to 2006, how cool! We nowadays have a much simpler version as a mitmproxy example: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/main/examples/ad.... Although it obviously does not work as well anymore with everything being HTTPS nowadays (unless you trust the cert of course). :)

Perhaps you could have your device use a proxy that can do the HTTPS unwrap for you? https://mitmproxy.org/ maybe?

A great way to test the effectiveness of a pinning implementation is by simulating an MITM attack. Tools like Mitmproxy or Wireshack allow us to create a test environment to monitor, intercept, and proxy network requests for a test host.

Another option might be to try something like sslstrip to strip off the TLS layer so you can point your tools at the stripped-off/non-TLS endpoint. Probably non-trivial to get this old code working on any system though, let alone a Jetson: https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip

sslstrip - Demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks.

Yeah. And for anyone unaware, this technique, SSL stripping, was made well-known (and arguably pioneered?) by Moxie Marlinspike of Signal with his tool sslstrip back in 2011: https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip. I believe that's what he was most famous for before Signal.

Once the connection has been intercepted, the attacker can use a tool such as sslstrip to disable all HTTPS redirects and change https:// links to unencrypted http://.

E' possibile, per quanto molto meno facile. https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip per esempio. Ci sono anche altre tecniche che si basano sulla manipolazione delle richieste di DNS e cose simili. Sicuramente molto piu' facile da notare e ordini di grandezza piu' complesso di HTTP, che è assolutamente triviale.