This kind of workplace surveillance is often hand-waved away by capitalist bootlicker apologists who say that you should expect no privacy while using employer-provided equipment (I think this is bullshit: you’d be pissed if discovered that your private lunch break parking-lot conversation with your spouse about your cancer diagnosis was secretly recorded by your employer’s hidden mics; your employer’s man-in-the-middle attack on your personal Gmail traffic during your lunch break is no more acceptable).
This is kind of a ridiculous comparison @doctorow . It’s more akin to finding out that the phone call made from your workplace provided desk phone discussing your cancer diagnosis was recorded – because it likely is. If you’re using your corporate equipment, you don’t own it and with the level of stupidity the average user ascends to, being able to scan internet traffic, including HTTPS, is important for preventing malicious attacks on the company.
Don’t want your traffic scanned at work? Use your phone, and don’t use the WiFi without a VPN.
