Subj : Privacy is Power: tak
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Sep 08 2021 15:10:10

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 KW> The latest IT trend in security that bugs me is SSL packet inspection.
 KW> My network team is essentially performing a man-in-the-middle attack on
 KW> any SSL packets leaving the corporate network, and it breaks a ton of
 KW> things.

Not to sound obtuse but why?  That violates the security priciples I know.  
Why not inspect the packets before the SSL layer?  Is there a genuine 
technical reason for doing something so stupid?

 KW> Thankfully, I don't need to use my work PC to "home from work" (the
 KW> opposite of working from home) anymore. With an Android phone, guest
 KW> wifi and VPN, I can go about my day and get home tasks done as needed.

I can't handle (literally) a phone to do that nor can I see well enough to use 
a phone for any of my computing tasks.  I would like to get a 10" Samsung 
Galaxy Tab someday to carry around or an older HP EliteDesk 8470w ... since 
I'm daydreaming, why not a good used HP ZBook? ... running FreeBSD.

 KW> I do find it interesting that when I see someone who's at work on their
 KW> phone all the time that my first thought is that they're goofing off,
 KW> but work has a BYOD policy and some people younger than me go for the
 KW> phone first for work communication.

I just think of the phone these days as a tablet with a phone app attached to 
it as really, that's what a "smartphone" these days is: a handheld computer 
with a two-way radio to connect to the international telephone network via a 
phone-like application.

At John Deere, they had a BYOD allowance but you had to run their software on 
it to access company data and they had the right to wipe your phone via remote 
if they felt the need to do so at any time, with or without notice.  That 
never sat well with me so I carried two cell phones.  I really hated that.  I 
still hate carrying a cell phone and I'm tempted to just get a numeric pager.

-- Sean
 
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