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Comment by lukeschlather | Hacker News Reader

It seems irresponsible to inject devices into your network that that indiscriminately MITM all traffic and can easily be configured to log passwords and auth cookies, no matter what setting you're in.

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You and I agree. Unfortunately most large corporations, and US Government agencies like to be able to see and inspect network traffic. Mostly to prevent the theft of confidential data. The fact that the MITM proxies hoover up passwords and auth cookies still bothers me quite a bit.

It's basically the TSA of corporate networks. They need to inspect traffic because they can't control what devices show up in their environments and what malware might ride along side legitimate traffic.

Actually most of these corporations have plenty of controls on their networks preventing the random plugging in of devices into networks. Most of the time they are using something that involves 802.1X.

Plus which, it allows me to check what black box software is doing. Certificate pinning is great and all, but it also makes it way harder to know what data "huawei mobile services", "google play services", or a random mobile game for that matter, is phoning home about.

I'm not a big fan of these corporate MITM boxes that contain the keys to the TLS traffic of the whole company (which additionally often double as employees' private phones and laptops), but I do like to look at my own device's traffic.

You transmit passwords from servers to internet destinations?

That would be a pretty serious security incident from my POV.

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