There are ~40 governments trusted to sign certificates by major operating systems..
For them, HTTPS is trivial to MitM unless you're pinning certs
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npub1mt…3ueyt
2026-03-07 01:11:15 CET
in reply to nevent1q…5lw0
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npub1mts2l7rsvgpqxdc8sk39e50fpntw0p7eamq8pp3kek5h6k7qemzq83ueytPublished at
2026-03-07 01:11:15 CETEvent JSON
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