Marco Moock:
>> There are firewalls that do TLS interception.
>> That is a man in the middle attack by your site to your connection,
>> they can read and manipulate all your traffic.

Samuel Sieb:
> That is terrible and breaks all security.  You can't trust any sites if 
> you do that.

It's a point of view thing...

a) It breaks your personal security, so do not do banking or personal
mail when working on your work's system.  Which you shouldn't do
anyway, though there are still people who don't have the internet at
home, and they probably feel their work system is a safer risk than a
public library, as well as more convenient.  That kind of thing,
though, should be done with permission of the computer admins and
following their instructions.

b) It strengthens an organisation's security if rigid controls are made
about what information can flow in and out of that organisation.  It
might be to block the flow of confidential client data, or that of the
organisation, *if* it can look into traffic and *if* it recognise it. 
Or automatically redact some content, or to block it under certain
circumstances.  e.g. You might feel okay that your doctor's office can
transmit a medical record to a hospital, but surely not to Facebook.

Working from home opens a can of worms.  From my point of view, if
someone wanted me to do that, then they have to provide a PC and a
secure network connection.  Whether that be VPN, or activating a second
port on my fibreoptic modem/network termination device - it has fibre
in, two VOIP phone sockets (to plug a traditional handset in), and four
ethernet sockets that allow for four different ISPs (it is not a router
or switch).  I'm not trusting them with my own computing traffic, nor
wearing out my own equipment at my cost.  And I wouldn't trust their
traffic in my system.

Likewise with mobile phones.  I would not allow them to impose work
rules or data inspection on my personal phone.

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