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TwoBit on Feb 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extracting the SuperFish certificate

Why are operating systems letting third party software modify TCP/IP traffic? Maybe their SDK can be installed only via root privileges?

lmm on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

It runs a proxy and configures the OS proxy settings (used by most web browser) to use that proxy. Nothing at the TCP/IP level.

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