SSL and Malicious Hardware/Software

Jack Lloyd lloyd at randombit.net
Tue Apr 29 11:27:38 EDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:03:38PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:12:31PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> 
> > What are people's opinions on corporations using this tactic?  I can't
> > think of a great way of alerting the user, but I would expect a pretty
> > reasonable level of privacy while using an SSL connection at work.  
> 
> Expectations of privacy at work vary by jurisdiction and industry. In
> the US, and say in the financial services industry, any such expectations
> are groundless (IANAL).

Most places I have worked (all in the US) explicitly required consent
to more or less arbitrary amounts of monitoring as a condition of
employment.

-Jack

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