Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

Kyouki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy it can see everything that happens in a session.
  This is also known as a man in the middle attack. But Cloudflare meds to do this in order to do it’s checks for bad actors.

  Now, as Cloudflare has access to the unencrypted traffic and we know that NSA is all about data vacuuming due to the Snowdn leaks we can make a tin foil hat guess whaylt goes on.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just note, OP, that the last part of his statement is pure speculation. The first part is technically true, which can lead to that inference, but no information has been released which corroborates it. However, that does not mean it’s not possible.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is true. Which is why I said tinfoil hat guess.

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      • h3ndrik@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Though that leaks showed they actually did it on a large scale. I don’t think they stopped for some arbitrary reason. Technology developed further, surveillance is only getting easier. I’d say even without a tin-foil hat, it’s more likely they do it than not.

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    • Auli@twit.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @ramble81 @slazer2au sure but they had PRISM to think they are still not doing something like that is absurd. We know they’re doing it and cloudflare would be a perfect target.

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  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand why Cloudflare gets bashed so much over this… EVERY CDN out there does exactly the same thing. It’s how CDN’s work. Whether it’s Akamai, AWS, Google Cloud CDN, Fastly, Microsoft Azure CDN, or some other provider, they all do the same thing. In order to operate properly they need access to unencrypted content so that they can determine how to cache it properly and serve it from those caches instead of always going back to your origin server.

    My employer uses both Akamai and AWS, and we’re well aware of this fact and what it means.

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  • Kyouki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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