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A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com

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482 points sanqui | 1 comments | 30 Nov 24 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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mattfields ◴[01 Dec 24 06:24 UTC] No.42286635[source]▶
Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations.

ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do business in the country.

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1. bawolff ◴[02 Dec 24 02:00 UTC] No.42292390[source]▶
That seems very unlikely to me.

Governments are usually sneaky with their evil plans. It is simply too hard to get away with something like that to make it a viable. Case in point, the fact you are reading about it on hn.