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Assessing intercepted traffic

QA reports that with a Charles proxy in place they see every API request and response from your app in the clear. How do you decide whether that's a real security problem?

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The user installed a root certificate on their own device, so TLS is working as designed, and you judge it by asking whether the threat is the device owner abusing the API by reading their own traffic.

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