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Far too many people would be able to notice. Someone in one of the companies would whistleblow.


But would they? The Snowden leaks were 6 years ago. I am assuming the government didn't just throw up their hands and give up after that...

edit: not to say they are specifically MITM'ing HTTPS widescale.


There are a lot easier ways to exfiltrate data than wholesale breaking TLS encryption and MITM'ing 295+ tbps of domestic traffic. That said, every super power is working on better decryption capabilities.




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