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Their business model has always been MITM, sniffing and modifying content. They do not just blindly pass traffic. Cloudflare and end-to-end encryption are inc
by _-- 10y ago
Their business model has always been MITM, sniffing and modifying content. They do not just blindly pass traffic. Cloudflare and end-to-end encryption are incompatible. They need access to the traffic. What is troubling is how easily they can fool customers or end users into believing that they are offering satisfactory encryption when in truth they are not.
Stepping on to soapbox... TLS needs to be replaced with something simpler, with fewer "buttons, dials and knobs". TLS pontificators need to separate authentication from encryption. They are two different problems, and it's possible we may only have a satisfactory solution for one of them. If that's the case, and it's the former problem that remains unsolved, then it could be worthwhile to reconsider the relative value of encrypted "channels" versus per packet encryption.