Right. If there were a diagram of this architecture, the NSA would scribble "SSL added and removed here" with a smiley face[1]. It's arguably even worse, sinc

Right. If there were a diagram of this architecture, the NSA would scribble "SSL added and removed here" with a smiley face[1]. It's arguably even worse, since the traffic between CloudFlare and the origin server would be traveling in the clear on the public Internet, as opposed to in the clear within Google's private network. [1] http://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 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...