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finnw on Dec 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA ...

It is not necessary for the government to have your key; They can impersonate your site (using their own key) if they have the cooperation of the CA.

jlgreco on Dec 5, 2012 [–]

The trick is that if this were being done on a regular/wide basis, people would notice and have pretty incontrovertible evidence of it.

I have no doubt they can do it, but it seems to be consigned to their bag of tricks for special occasions.

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