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>assuming access to the right servers a machine could subtly edit a site you are about to retrieve in real time
it's trivially easy to test for this
they'd have to compromise every device you come into contact with, if you're really paranoid about this just find a random computer somewhere to compare with
telling anons that everyone /here/ is a bot and that the gobberment can mitm everyone's network traffic whenever they want is FUD
even if they technically could do this to a few people it would be expensive as hell
the network is a mess. simply getting accurate maps is difficult. putting backdoors onto too many devices is risky because hackers could get copies and repurpose them, true competence required to pull it all off is rare and demands high salary, the payoff doesn't justify the price tag when social engineering tricks such as honeypots are cheap and effective