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Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by quietbritishjim on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:59PM (#28579730)
> do not use corporate "guest" wifi for your personal devices. Your employer is monitoring what you do on this network and may be man-in-the-middle-ing your SSL connections.

Unless I'm missing something, this is not possible (unless you install a certificate root supplied by your employer) because any man-in-the-image attempt would be flagged as a failed certificate authentication. Indeed, that's exactly why certificate chains tied to domain names exist.

Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by nikau on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:55AM (#28582027)
correct its not.

They can however look at your DNS queries, and even if you use encrypted DNS they can still inspect the certificates of sites you are going to to figure out what the domain is.

In the past it was possible to quickly swap the physical sata hard disk on some laptops to segregate work/personal use, but that's no longer viable with modern laptops.

On the plus side carrying 2 modern laptops weighs the same as one oldshool laptop and they use the same usb-c charger...

Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by Scoundreller on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:48AM (#28582503)
> as one oldshool laptop and they use the same usb-c charger

Be careful with this. My MacBook Air will charge off anything, including a 5V battery bank. My Dell won’t charge off anything less than 18V over USB-C.

Got caught in a bind once when I brought my “slow” charger thinking that would be fine for light use on a trip away. It was not.

Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by nikau on Sunday September 19, 2021 @04:16AM (#28582642)
For sure, I use a lenovo 45Watt as its pretty compact and charges most laptops and phones.
Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by daggersandscars on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:02PM (#28580138)
Thank you for the clarification. I knew it was possible if you installed a work-provided certificate. I was not sure it was possible without one.
Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by GekkePrutser on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:50PM (#28580412)
It's not possible with SSL/TLS. But there are ways to downgrade to http in some cases. All the corporate inspection tools I know don't use this by the way.

Many of these corporate inspection tools seem to leave traffic on nonstandard ports alone by the way, just saying ;)

Re:You Need a Personal Laptop by unstatedAnswers on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:57PM (#28595957)
Unless you work for Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Facebook, etc etc ;)

Of course they’d lose their ability to issue public certificates if it became widely known, but they have it within their power.