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by bhhaskin 3311 days ago
They could require a root ssl cert to be installed and then just MITM all the traffic. And Org that wants to protect personal data might be willing to do something stupid like that.
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For a properly engineered mobile app there are only downsides to using the public CA system (and thereby the devices CA store). So that would not work.
True. This is not hard to deploy if they leverage a centralized management solution for PKI, such as MS Active Directory.