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> Imagine getting in at the centre of a new Meet-Me room and having persistent access to key switches there.

This wouldn't get you much. We already assume the network is insecure. This is why TLS is a thing (and mTLS for those who are serious).

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I suspect "we" is a much smaller group than you imagine. I've gotten pcaps from customers as recently as this year that include unencrypted financial transaction data. These were captured on a router, not an end host, so the traffic was going across the client's network raw.

> We already assume the network is insecure.

Maybe naively, I wish this assumption became universal.

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