You quoted from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds.cern.ch&#x2F;journal&#x2F;CERNBulletin&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;News%20Articles&#x2F;2126902" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds.cern.ch&#x2F;journal&#x2F;CERNBulletin&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;News%20Artic...</a><p>This does seem more reasonable — probing devices on their network for running services, counting unusual numbers of connections, etc.  Are they MITMing SSL traffic?<p>As far as I know, CERN isn&#x27;t a &quot;home ISP&quot; to anyone, unlike many universities.