The Strange Microsoft Root Certificate - Mass Surveillance Enabler? + Q&A

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Whoever puts a root certificate on your computer can generate a certificate for any website, even fake ones. Well strangely enough Microsoft Root Certificates, which Microsoft calls a "Private Certificate Authority" is on Microsoft Windows, AND on Linux. What's up with this?

Basically this empowers Microsoft to do mass surveillance on any machine just about.

Unfortunately, it isn't simple to just untrust it.

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