[nicholasjarnold]

I was assuming that it's a loss-leader sort of business strategy at play before reading your comment. Do you care to share any insights/references to support this claim?

[hipadev23]

Nah that’d be a national security crisis.

But the presence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM well over 10 years ago should be sufficient.

[nicholasjarnold]

Gotcha. Yeah, I mean all of these platforms are certainly juicy targets for room 641A [0] shenanigans. I just wondered if there had been some public leaks or something which we might not all be aware of yet.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[edelbitter]

"Our Free plan gives Cloudflare access to unique threat intelligence"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/

[BoingBoomTschak]

Nobody remembers the "SSL added and removed here :)"?

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_rem...

[sophacles]

How else would a cdn work? Or an l7 ddos protection?

[ForHackernews]

One half of the NSA's mission is defensive, dedicated to improving the security of US systems and infrastructure: https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/

[nosioptar]

SELinux is a great example of that end.

Of course, I know an embarrassing number of people that won't touch it because they're convinced it's an NSA backdoor into your system.