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HTTPS scan: should you enable it?
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<blockquote data-quote="SpiderWeb" data-source="post: 909671" data-attributes="member: 88686"><p>Like others have said HTTPS Scanning is a backdoor. All your traffic gets decrypted sometimes even before it gets to your computer. So somewhere in some random country, a server is looking at your encrypted sessions. Servers like this one:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Spy agencies LOVE you for installing a phony certificate giving anyone who hacks the AV vendor's server access to everything you are browsing. They have hacked the AV servers years ago and actively monitor all files that run through them. Think about all the passwords you just openly shared. Think about your banking transactions. Think about highly personal, sensitive information. What is the AVs policy on data retention? Do they immediately delete your decrypted data? How much do they share with other 3rd parties? How much do they share with law enforcement in your country and in their country? So so many attack vectors that are opened by doing SSL/TLS/HTTPS scanning, you make 1 step forward and 100 steps back. DNS privacy, VPN, encryption, sandboxing, site-isolation, VM, content blocking, all of this is pointless when you allow HTTPS Scanning because your AV or cloud AV server become the single point of failure where anyone can inject or leak everything you are trying to protect. Every browser security engineer at Firefox, Chrome and Brave says it's a horrible idea, so many security researchers say it's a horrible idea. Only AV vendors who are in the business of spreading fear say it's making you more secure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpiderWeb, post: 909671, member: 88686"] Like others have said HTTPS Scanning is a backdoor. All your traffic gets decrypted sometimes even before it gets to your computer. So somewhere in some random country, a server is looking at your encrypted sessions. Servers like this one: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html[/URL] Spy agencies LOVE you for installing a phony certificate giving anyone who hacks the AV vendor's server access to everything you are browsing. They have hacked the AV servers years ago and actively monitor all files that run through them. Think about all the passwords you just openly shared. Think about your banking transactions. Think about highly personal, sensitive information. What is the AVs policy on data retention? Do they immediately delete your decrypted data? How much do they share with other 3rd parties? How much do they share with law enforcement in your country and in their country? So so many attack vectors that are opened by doing SSL/TLS/HTTPS scanning, you make 1 step forward and 100 steps back. DNS privacy, VPN, encryption, sandboxing, site-isolation, VM, content blocking, all of this is pointless when you allow HTTPS Scanning because your AV or cloud AV server become the single point of failure where anyone can inject or leak everything you are trying to protect. Every browser security engineer at Firefox, Chrome and Brave says it's a horrible idea, so many security researchers say it's a horrible idea. Only AV vendors who are in the business of spreading fear say it's making you more secure. [/QUOTE]
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