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[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not really, because the client system is configured to go through the proxy. That proxy will connect to the website and do filtering on the unencrypted content because it is initiating the connection. Next it'll re-encrypt everything with its own certificate and serve it to the client.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh you're talking about enterprise scale mitm attacks on your own coworkers not the general case.

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, but that's what you would need to do and get if everyone had to install an intermediate cert.