That would make people in the US feel better, but it wouldn&#x27;t make any difference. If a country can force residents to install software or reconfigure their machines, there&#x27;s nothing browser vendors can do to make those residents secure. Essentially, Kazakhstan owns (in both senses) the Internet-connected computers of all its residents, and it can do whatever it wants with them.<p>It&#x27;s also well within Kazakhstan&#x27;s budget to do subtler, harder-to-defeat things to stop MITM circumvention. This is an arms race that Google will lose.