Erm, Google&#x27;s business model is to perform MITM for economic advantage. The popularity of this business model is what rekindled this &quot;debate&quot;.<p>Their use of TLS is like an amateur&#x27;s use of XOR - a secure primitive in a very narrow context that ignores the big picture. Google <i>is</i> the type of backdoor the skinjobs are grooming us to accept.<p>I think it&#x27;s only a matter of time until Apple <i>Inc</i> lands on &quot;Game Over&quot;, but Google is playing an entirely different game.