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Why do they want to add all our traffic to their backbone?
by lozenge 4y ago
Why do they want to add all our traffic to their backbone?
- datalopers 4y agoSame reason as they offer free TLS termination. Someone is paying for all of that unencrypted and/or de-anonymized traffic across an increasingly large portion of all internet activity.
- TechBro8615 4y agoAny source for that disparaging claim?
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- datalopers 4y agoPRISM and FISA/FAA. 15 years ago every telecom and internet company was providing backdoor access to communications. What makes you think that somehow that has changed? US laws sure haven't and the technology has only improved.
- TechBro8615 4y agoI don’t think it’s changed, but the claim was that people (“someone”) are paying Cloudflare for access to these logs.
- crazytalk 4y agoMuch easier to get a global view of Internet behaviour when there are only one or two DCs worth of ClickHouse clusters needing tapped Related question: given this obviously generates logs, what are CloudFlare doing to protect log data in transit within its own network from similar attacks to the Google-NSA episode? ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i... )
- robocat 4y agoWhat was to stop the NSA funding, creating, acquiring, or controlling CloudFlare so as to be useful for MITM surveillance?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI suspect the 5 eye countries don't have to pay a dime and have complete access to traffic and records on it. Hence everyone pushing encryption to at least make it a bit harder for them.
- rozenmd 4y agoHint: bot detection is one of Cloudflare's products