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by stephenr 610 days ago
> Legal cover for when a baddie uses the connection to order drugs or whatever.

.... Is this meant to be a joke?

> still required me to import a CA

It's reasonably likely that they wanted it to only work on known devices with their private CA cert installed; but either way, and regardless of the technology in question, I wouldn't suggest it's particularly meaningful to use one organisation's setup as the basis for how things inherently work.

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>.... Is this meant to be a joke?

Are you a lawyer? I wasn't making a definitive statement, but if you have stronger evidence to the contrary please present them rather than making shallow dismissals.

>It's reasonably likely that they wanted it to only work on known devices with their private CA cert installed

It's an organization where BYOD is very common.