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by alexvoda 1350 days ago
As I was saying, (from uncle comment):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095888

> I work at a government agency and here are my tales.

> 1) They install a root certificate on all machines and use that to MITM all TLS connections using a firewall appliance. They turn this MITM on one day without notifying any developer. Overnight, all our builds (run on-prem) fail because npm install, pip install etc fail and we spent a long time trying to figure it out. They are still failing to this day and I have to get off the VPN every time I need to run these simple commands. IT absolutely doesn't give a flying * about developers.