It may not strictly be illegal but at our company we have taken the tack that we just don’t decrypt users traffic, especially sensitive usernames and passwords to sites like online banking and healthcare, it’s not worth the risk of an employee getting
compromised and then coming back and saying that we had the data so we must have been the one’s that got compromised. I guess it’s more of a management decision, but I imagine depending on what country/state you are in there are also some legal issues to
content with.
Mark Semkiw, Senior Network Engineer
CCNA CNSE WCNA
From: <
wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Noam Birnbaum
Reply-To: Community support list for Wireshark
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 8:08 PM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] dissecting HTTPS traffic
Mark, I'm curious about your statement that it's not legal to decrypt users' traffic without them being aware. Since companies are constantly asserting that they own all the data on their
devices and network, why would a user's personal traffic, even if it's of a sensitive nature, be any different?
Thanks!
noam