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oh dear.
He helped the government combat crime and nuisance style offenses. Clearly
in collusion.


On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Message du 06/04/14 17:41
> > De : "staticsafe"
> > On 4/6/2014 10:40, [email protected] wrote:
> > >> Message du 04/04/14 20:09
> > >> De : "Eric Mill"
> > >> Along with Cloudflare's 2014 plan to offer SSL termination for free,
> and
> > >> their stated plan to double SSL on the Internet by end of year, the
> barrier
> > >> to HTTPS everywhere is dropping rapidly.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I agree that putting https everywhere is great, but Cloudflare's
> founders are tightly linked with the US-intelligence community. That fact
> alone kind of kills any claims they make about data security within their
> service.
> >
> > Source for this please?
> >
>
> Is it so painful to do your own homework?
>
> "Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn created CloudFlare in
> 2009.[1][2] They previously worked on Project Honey Pot." -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudFlare
>
> "[...] the project organizers also help various law enforcement agencies
> combat private and commercial unsolicited bulk mailing offenses and overall
> work to help reduce the amount of spam being sent [...]" -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Honey_Pot
>
> That's just for starters, you can dig more and find more. It is
> interesting that the history of the founders themselves is no longer
> exhibited in cloudflare.com website as it was years ago.
>
>
> As an American company, there is nothing preventing Cloudflare from
> receiving NSLs and having to shut up about them. What use is a system that
> you can't trust like this?
>
> You can say "oh, but they go after the bad guys, spammers". But that
> doesn't limit it to spammers neither do we know who are the so called bad
> guys, since that is decided by American secret laws, made by secret courts,
> that issue secret orders.
>
> No trust to American companies, less even trust to American companies that
> promise any kind of data security. Better no security than a false sense of
> it.
>
> Sorry.
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