Tens of thousands of Chromebooks fail because of Symantec BlueCoat problem

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The school system was using Symantec's BlueCoat, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) SSL web proxy. This uses ProxySG technology to examine Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypted web content. So far, so good -- if you want to make sure your seventh graders aren't peeking into pornography. But, in this case, it turns our BlueCoat doesn't support the newest standard web security protocol, TLS 1.3.

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Personal note:
Well, not to be biased, some other proxy vendor has yet come up with support for 1.3, and some still struggling resolving issues with 1.2.

Just for awareness for those using Chromebook. Cheers!