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by finnw 4938 days ago
It is not necessary for the government to have your key; They can impersonate your site (using their own key) if they have the cooperation of the CA.
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The trick is that if this were being done on a regular/wide basis, people would notice and have pretty incontrovertible evidence of it.

I have no doubt they can do it, but it seems to be consigned to their bag of tricks for special occasions.