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it's fair to say they do and have for ages... it's not that hard to assume a well trusted TLS cert is under their control.

• strictnein 22d ago
  What does having a "well trusted TLS cert" enable for them in this case, exactly? Having a magical cert doesn't mean you can just intercept everything.
  • odo1242 22d ago
    On the contrary, it lets you MITM encrypted communications by swapping the website's original certificate for the "well trusted TLS cert"
    • strictnein 22d ago
      No, it doesn't. HSTS and other methods prevent this from happening.
      • kelnos 22d ago
        HSTS doesn't protect you from this at all. It only requires HTTPS, which a spoofed-but-trusted cert passes just fine. No mainstream browser (or any browser?) is doing cert pinning. What "other methods" are there that are deployed and actually in use?
        • peanut-walrus 22d ago
          Transparency logs. It's mandatory for a cert to be in CT logs for browsers to trust it. Those are public, if this was happening, someone would have noticed already.
          • chews 21d ago
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