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Uh? Many govt agencies care that they can monitor what you do if they want and that you CANNOT connect securely to the web without going through a MITM SSL proxy in some cases.

They are sold this as a virus filtering requirement or something like that.

But some agencies literally decrypt everything going out (and then re-encrypt) - talk about a security and privacy risk!

Staff can use personal phones to check bank balances, do messaging etc if they have any sense at these places.

Thankfully this all died WAY WAY down with certificate pinning - thank you google! Seriously, when the execs got the warnings from google chrome the decrypt everything situation died at a lot of places.

Google's history on securing users using chrome is not bad (if you are dealing with old IE etc chrome is basically heaven by comparison in terms of security and patch velocity)




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