So, for example, that's the way the corporate proxies work, where anyone using SSL has to trust the corporate proxy.

So in fact proxies do perform - corporate proxies can be set up to perform exactly this kind of interception.

So what happens in the corporate scenario is that the corporate proxy creates basically a fake certificate on the fly, which it signs.

Given the support that company owners gave these initiatives last year, it is surprising that companies like AT&T and Verizon are fighting hard to keep them off corporate proxies in 2007.

A dissident shareholder of the El Paso Corporation kicked off what is expected to be an especially rancorous corporate proxy season yesterday by saying he hoped to oust the company's entire board.

Only a few short years ago stockholders mindlessly approved corporate proxies, and it was considered quite natural that most corporate boards were dominated by company officers.

The United Nations permits it in situations that involve world peace; even corporate proxies have a box for "I abstain."

These types of proxies are frequently used to gain access to web sites blocked by corporate or school proxies.

This firm, which Mr. Monks no longer owns, advises pension funds on how to vote their corporate proxies on matters relating to shareholder rights.

But if they are looking to get pre-approval for their corporate proxies, they are in the wrong place.