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You can just tell people to install the cert.

Verizon puts an MITM proxy from Mcaffe on people's routers (with their consent) that does this.

Why would installing a ssl cert inside a router change anything? The only way is if you could install the cert inside the OS or the browser...

They put software on the router that terminates people's SSL connections and tells them to install a cert on their computer.