China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection
Combine this with exploits into one or more broadly trusted certificate authorities (which surely exist) and it's pretty amazing how much data China would have been able to obtain.<p>Every time I bring up the following point someone chimes in that it's a bad idea, but I still fail to understand why it's not easy to pick which CAs I want to trust by picking a list of entities/people I trust and then adopting their recommendations for which CAs to trust.<p>This would be a few clicks of UI to let me be intelligently paranoid while maintaining only a layperson's understanding of why (say) Bruce Schneier decides to trust some and not others.