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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by develatio on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:06PM (#30743830)
I thought mitmproxy was designed to make it easier to debug stuff in a local environment. Why would you want to deploy it to production? How would you use it?
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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by retrobox on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:15PM (#30743927)
I’m also curious about the use case. For debugging things locally, it is ideal for my needs.
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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by armitron on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:16PM (#30743939)
Many different applications: Red/blue teaming, metric collection, policy-based decision making.
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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by marginalia_nu on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:24PM (#30744014)
Seems like a bit of a foot-gun to do these things by effectively undermining your own security.
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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by Cyphase on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:42AM (#30750701)
Red teaming at least is all about undermining ~your security. ;)
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Re:Mitmproxy 8 by throwaway1777 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:11PM (#30743875)
Maybe they write malware?
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