Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping?

First time accepted submitter jez9999 writes "I recently worked for a relatively large company that imposed so-called transparent HTTPS proxying on their network. In practice, what this means is that they allow you to use HTTPS through their network, but it must be proxied through their server and their server must be trusted as a root CA. They were using the Cisco IronPort device to do this. The "transparency" seems to come from the fact that they tend to install their root CA into Internet Explorer's certificate store, so IE won't actually warn you that your HTTPS traffic may be being snooped on (nor will any other browser that uses IE's cert store, like Chrome). Is this a reasonable policy? Is it worth leaving a job over? Should it even be legal? It seems to me rather mad to go to huge effort to create a secure channel of communication for important data like online banking, transactions, and passwords, and then to just effectively hand over the keys to your employer. Or am I overreacting?"

Comments

Re:Don't do personal shit at work

[DogDude]

Suckers.

Re:Don't do personal shit at work

[Anonymous Coward]

I can understand how it would be unreasonable for people clocking out from the factory at 5:01 to expect anything beyond scheduled breaks.

Yeah! Fuck the wage slaves. They should have got an education and a great job like help desk technician like you if they wanted to be treated decently! If your job requires you to sweat, then I hope they fucking die.

Re:They don't enforce snooping on everything

[drsmithy]

Browse your porn (or whatever it is you do that you don't want your employer watching) from your smartphone. Don't use your employer's network if you don't want them to watch what you do.

No.

Fuck 'em if they can't handle the idea people have lives outside of work and sometimes need to deal with those lives.

Morally bankrupt employers who cannot handle the fact that their employees won't spend every second labouring deserve nothing more than contempt.

Which is still more respect than subservient scum like you should be shown.

Re:Don't do personal shit at work

[Anonymous Coward]

"But for those of us with important, creative jobs, putting in over 60 hours every week,"

Cute, how you fucking paper pushers consider your jobs more important than the people who actually make things at the factory. You do understand that the engineer or industrial designer is as useless as he thinks he isn't if there isn't an army of people to build what he designs, right?

God damn white collar cretins.