If you’re at work, your employer owns your computer, and may intercept, read and modify your network traffic, subject to local laws, because it’s their network and their computer. Disclaimer!ĭon’t do this on a machine you don’t own or manage – you may very well be interfering with legitimate interference in your network traffic. The first use is somewhat acceptable (enterprises can prevent their users from distributing viruses or engaging in illicit behaviour from work computers, which the enterprises quite rightly believe they own and should control), but the second use is generally not acceptable, depending on how much you trust your local government.įilippo helpfully gives instructions on blocking this from OSX, and a few people in the Twitter conversation have asked how to do this on Windows. Kind of confusing and scary if you’re not quite sure what this all means – perhaps clear and scary if you do.īlueCoat manufactures “man in the middle” devices – sometimes used by enterprises to scan and inspect / block outbound traffic across their network, and apparently also used by governments to scan and inspect traffic across the network.
So, there was this tweet that got passed around the security community pretty quickly:īlueCoat now has a CA signed by Symantec
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