How can tools like Charles and Proxyman show app traffic that's encrypted with HTTPS in plain text?
The capture tool becomes a man-in-the-middle proxy: it installs and trusts its own root CA on the device and issues a fake server certificate on the fly for each connection. Two TLS sessions form, app to proxy and proxy to server, so the proxy sees plain text.
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