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by dspillett 2534 days ago
Anyone can make one. You can make one if you want to. Getting others to trust and install it is the key - and in this case it is government mandated.

It is not uncommon to see this in companies that (for security, regulatory, or other reasons) need to monitor traffic in and out of their network. They have all the company provided computing devices include their self-generated CA certificate and force all HTTPS traffic through a MitMing proxy in order to do the scanning.