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by drpossum 708 days ago
Or anyone who controls your DNS resolution which has a number of paths (for example a local hosts file, possibly a router, changing your config or how you get your config to a malicious DNS server, etc)
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Won’t work with https.

If that malicious actor can install a custom ca too, they can already install whatever spyware they want.

Not that easy with HSTS.
Also need a cert which is tricky
or public wifi access point
You'd probably need DNS and Root Certificates, something to which most employers have access