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by dispose13432 3457 days ago
> Entire point of SSL/TLS is to ensure end to end authenticity and confidentiality.

The point is that country A can strongarm a certificate authority under their domain to sign any certificate they want. So if A wants to MITM google or github they can, and there's no way for you to know which certificate is the real one and which is the fake.