question about basics of creating a PROXY to MONITOR network activity

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On 2021-04-09 at 00:17:59 +1000,
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, you'd better be really REALLY sure that your monitoring is
> legal, ethical, and not deceptive.

Not to mention *secure*.  Your monitor increases the attack surface of
the system as a whole.  If I break into your monitor, can I recover
passwords (yours, users, servers, etc.)?  Can I snoop on traffic?  Can I
snoop metadata (like when which users are talking to which servers) not
otherwise available on your network?