Sophos' own products do a man in the middle attack to sniff SSL traffic for web filtering. Why are they so alarmed by this?
Opera has been proxying and shrinking web data for mobile devices for years and it was never a problem. This makes business sense for the consumer (faster page loads) and Amazon as less data will be sent over their 3G network.
And the article should note this can be turned off, unlike Phorm.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
