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aguysomewhere | 4 years ago | on: Cloudflare is a threat to Internet Privacy

I see. I'd imagine they can't break encryption of data of the traffic they route through BGP, as they do with the reverse proxy, right?

It would be good to know how many traffic goes into the proxy, to have an accurate understanding of their plain traffic capabilities.

aguysomewhere | 4 years ago | on: Cloudflare is a threat to Internet Privacy

Errata: On reason number 3, the string "Facebook," was cut out from the text when I posted the thread, I only noticed it now and I can't edit it anymore. This seems to be some kind of algorithm from Hacker News, as the thread was originally supposed to be named "6 Reasons Why Cloudflare is a Threat to Internet Privacy", and was transformed after submitting, too.

aguysomewhere | 4 years ago | on: Cloudflare is a threat to Internet Privacy

Sources and References:

[1] 20% traffic in 2021 claim https://twitter.com/AxelrodG/status/1447938954758705155

[1] 10% traffic in 2017 claim https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-in...

[3] 43% of traffic https://www.sandvine.com/blog/netflix-vs.-google-vs.-amazon-...

[4] cdnjs vulnerability https://blog.ryotak.me/post/cdnjs-remote-code-execution-en/

[4] TAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

[5] Cloudflare CEO interview to BBC in 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016