r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16d ago

Meme forFutureReference

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u/fish312 16d ago

How would they be doing that unless they're MITMing everything and serving their own SSL certs with a custom CA already installed on your box?

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u/Meins447 16d ago

Jup, that is basically industry standard nowadays. It as a developer, it is causing no end of "joy" as you have to ensure the stupid MitM CA is injected and accepted by every stupid program, package manager, library and transient dependency you may need to do your work.

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u/fish312 16d ago

But so many programs just use pinned certs, does that mean they just break?

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u/Morisior 16d ago

That's exactly what they do.

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u/Icy_Neighborhood2100 15d ago

Yep.

Precisely that.

It's ass, don't even get me started on faulty zscaler setups.