Cloudflare is the most successful "Man-in-the-Middle" in history
I was thinking about the NSA scandals from years ago, the wiretapping, the underwater cables, the backdoors in datacenters. It was a massive international drama.
But then you look at Cloudflare. By design, they are a massive, legal Man-in-the-Middle. They decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt the traffic of millions of websites. We’ve reached a point where "privacy" means "hidden from everyone EXCEPT Cloudflare."
It’s the ultimate irony: developers are so obsessed with "security" that they put their entire stack behind a single US-based entity that holds the private keys to half the internet. We basically did the NSA's job for them, and we did it voluntarily because the dashboard is pretty and the CDN is free.
Am I the only one who finds this centralization terrifying, or have we just accepted that true end-to-end privacy is dead in the name of DDoS protection?