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New thread ;-). This is the cloudflare-is-a-big-man-in-the-middle-operation meme. When a site uses Cloudflare the traffic is encrypted between the visitor and C
by filleokus 2y ago
New thread ;-). This is the cloudflare-is-a-big-man-in-the-middle-operation meme. When a site uses Cloudflare the traffic is encrypted between the visitor and Cloudflare, and then (possibly) re-encrypted between Cloudflare and the site.
As a large percentage of all internet traffic is going through Cloudflare, they could spy on us or let $GOV_AGENCY spy on us.
There is no evidence and Cloudflare is (or at least used to be) somewhat of a HN darling, so it's perhaps not so popular to say, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if turned out PRISM 2.0 involved them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
- palata 2y agoOh right. Well I think it is a separate problem from these laws against encryption. I am not sure if we need to make laws that would prevent websites from going through Cloudflare (because the sites choose to do so, right?). It would be like making a law that would prevent Telegram from not doing proper E2EE... not encrypting traffic is a choice that has nothing to do with the law, I would think. The article in this case is talking about politicians who want to make laws that will prevent projects from doing proper E2EE, that's the opposite.