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HTTPS scan: should you enable it?
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<blockquote data-quote="SpiderWeb" data-source="post: 909957" data-attributes="member: 88686"><p>You can't be serious. Cyprus is a tax haven not a privacy haven and your Wikipedia article says most employees and operations are still in Moscow.</p><p></p><p>Transparency is the key and literally all security researchers agree that being a MITM is NOT improving security for anyone. Installing a custom certificate is a backdoor and yes it's because of companies like yours that Chromium team has to implement Manifest V3 because the risk of it being used for malicious purposes is too big. I see on Adguard's website that there are assurances that sensitive traffic is not being decrypted but do you guys have every password manager, every financial site, every health care site whitelisted? My point is not an opinion, it's a regurgitation of what browser security devs are saying and have been saying for years. You altering and scanning encrypted traffic increases security by a small margin in exchange for doubling the user's attack surface.</p><p></p><p>Summary - Pros and Cons of HTTPS Filtering</p><p></p><p>Pros:</p><p>+Convenience</p><p>+Might block TLS malware/phishing</p><p></p><p>Cons:</p><p>-Undermines site isolation</p><p>-Undermines passwords</p><p>-Breaks sandboxing security model</p><p>-Breaks DNS encryption security model</p><p>-Breaks secure updates</p><p>-Downgrades modern encryption standards</p><p>-Allows eavesdropping</p><p>-Causes error messages</p><p>-Leaks IP/deanonymizes you</p><p></p><p>Nobody's security model should be based on 'trust'. Everyone's security model should be based on trustless actors, minimizing the amount of trust required.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpiderWeb, post: 909957, member: 88686"] You can't be serious. Cyprus is a tax haven not a privacy haven and your Wikipedia article says most employees and operations are still in Moscow. Transparency is the key and literally all security researchers agree that being a MITM is NOT improving security for anyone. Installing a custom certificate is a backdoor and yes it's because of companies like yours that Chromium team has to implement Manifest V3 because the risk of it being used for malicious purposes is too big. I see on Adguard's website that there are assurances that sensitive traffic is not being decrypted but do you guys have every password manager, every financial site, every health care site whitelisted? My point is not an opinion, it's a regurgitation of what browser security devs are saying and have been saying for years. You altering and scanning encrypted traffic increases security by a small margin in exchange for doubling the user's attack surface. Summary - Pros and Cons of HTTPS Filtering Pros: +Convenience +Might block TLS malware/phishing Cons: -Undermines site isolation -Undermines passwords -Breaks sandboxing security model -Breaks DNS encryption security model -Breaks secure updates -Downgrades modern encryption standards -Allows eavesdropping -Causes error messages -Leaks IP/deanonymizes you Nobody's security model should be based on 'trust'. Everyone's security model should be based on trustless actors, minimizing the amount of trust required. [/QUOTE]
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