I work on a corporate laptop that has an infamous root CA certicate installed, which allows the company to intercept all my browser traffic and perform a MITM attack.

Ideally, I’d like to use the company laptop to read my own mail, access my NAS in my time off.

I fear that even if I configure containers on that laptop to run alpine + wireguard client + firefox, the traffic would still be decrypted. If so, could you explain how the wireguard handshake could be tampered with?

What about Tor in a container? Would that work or is that pointless as well?

Huge kudos if you also take the time to explain your answer.

EDIT: A lot of you suggested I use a personal device for checking mails. I will do that. Thanks for your answers!

  • phase
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    8 months ago

    If you’re on linux, run your browser in a container. Mount the X socket to have it like a normal window.

    The issue with the Root CA is that TLS sessions could be MITMed, because your system trust the CA. By running in a container, you remove this certificate (without touching your company settings).