9 May
2016
9 May
'16
9:23 p.m.
Blake Hadley moosehadley@gmail.com writes:
The environment requires an HTTPS proxy to reach the World Web Web.
Do HTTP proxies inherently create a situation similar to MITM?
Yes, that is exactly what they do. If your web browser isn't nagging you all the time with "hey this certificate is untrusted" then a signing certificate will have had to be installed in your computer. This lets your employer decrypt all of your HTTPS traffic, inspect it, and reencrypt it. Unless you understand exactly what is happening and what to do about it, best to avoid using the Internet from there altogether.
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