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If you have a valid HTTPS certificate for example.com and then add example.com to Cloudflare, your overall security decreases because the path from the CF datac
by r1ch 3y ago
If you have a valid HTTPS certificate for example.com and then add example.com to Cloudflare, your overall security decreases because the path from the CF datacenter to your origin is now vulnerable to MITM - the default SSL setting is "Full" which doesn't check certificate validity.
To the less experienced sysadmin everything looks like it's working fine and users also don't notice any difference, which is why it's a terrible default.
Sure you _can_ configure Cloudflare securely, but it should be secure out of the box. But that adds friction when the origin doesn't have a valid SSL certificate which probably hurts someone's KPIs.