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Sep 25 at 12:44 answer added bbaassssiiee timeline score: 0
Aug 30 at 14:47 comment added ysdx @Martin, webscreen.lgfl.org.uk/UserManual/overview.html
Aug 30 at 0:03 comment added Martin @coagmano I Googled "WebScreenCert" but all I see is a link to this SE post; what exactly did you find?
Aug 29 at 18:00 answer added alekop timeline score: 2
Aug 29 at 12:50 answer added Serge Ballesta timeline score: 4
Aug 28 at 22:06 comment added browsermator I'm fine with "never ever do this" as advice just because you can't be sure of the source of the cert. Even if you knew this did come from the school, you can't be sure that they would keep the private key secure. (school security when so many crazy kids are running around with potential access must be a nightmare) Btw, you can easily tell if it is used as MITM by checking the certs of the sites you visit. If they're all this same cert, then it's in that position and could be used to intercept traffic (but probably isn't because of liabilities involved with doing that)
Aug 28 at 20:44 answer added R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE timeline score: 4
Aug 28 at 16:38 comment added user71659 This is good training if you ever want to get a job in financial services, government, aerospace and defense, and medical industries. Learn never to do anything personal on your work computer.
Aug 28 at 14:54 comment added schroeder @Fattie "never" is a strange word to use when dealing with risk. This situation is neither strange nor unusual. And given the risk-mitigating measures the OP suggests, why make this such a hard line? What risks are there?
Aug 28 at 14:51 answer added Questor timeline score: 7
Aug 28 at 14:40 comment added Questor So... Is this certificate handed to you by the schools admin? Or is it being provided by the "school's" wifi.
Aug 28 at 11:46 review Close votes
Aug 28 at 14:56
Aug 28 at 11:38 comment added Fattie Great question OP. I think sometimes with security issues a concise response is in order, and my response would be NEVER EVER DO THIS. It's a total PITA but, just accept that essentially "your school does not have wifi", however inconvenient that is.
Aug 28 at 11:28 comment added sleske This needs more information. "Downloading a certificate" by itself will do nothing, just create a file on disk. However, they most likely want you to do something with that certificate - import it into your browser, use it for authentication... . What exactly are you supposed to do with the cert?
Aug 28 at 8:26 comment added Reznik "I go to a secondary school and want to use my Macbook Air to type out long essays." You don't need internet for that, right?
Aug 28 at 5:15 comment added coagmano If you google WebScreenCert, you can see it's used to MITM (decrypt, examine content, re-encrypt)
Aug 27 at 20:44 history became hot network question
Aug 27 at 15:47 comment added ysdx There are two possibilities: 1) this certificate is used for MITM interception ; 2) this certificate is used only for authenticating to a authentication server for initiating the Wifi connection. You should try to see which king of certificate this is: Is this a CA certificate ? Is this a non-CA certificate associated with a name such as "radius.myschool.org", "wifi.myschool.org".
Aug 27 at 15:42 answer added ysdx timeline score: 85
Aug 27 at 15:12 answer added kontextify timeline score: 24
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S Aug 27 at 12:42 history asked Grace McCarthy CC BY-SA 4.0