[Ajedi32]

That's a bit misleading I think. There's no evidence whatsoever that DarkMatter plans to abuse their CA to MITM users. DarkMatter has been in possession of a trusted intermediary certificate for years now, so _if_ that was something they wanted to do they could have done it a long time ago.

The reason people are concerned about DarkMatter is that they have (allegedly, they seem to be denying this) previously developed and sold software that can be used to MITM connections (though not by abusing any CA certificates), and that this software has been used for less-than-noble purposes.

So yes "You're a bunch of sketchy creeps, we don't trust you." is an accurate assessment of some people's opinions towards DarkMatter, but "widely expected to start running a governmental MITM once trusted" is inaccurate.