I have absolutely no reason to think Cloudflare is a covert CIA operation. In fact, I’m sure there are plenty of good reasons to think it isn’t. But if it were, pretty much everything it does is exactly what you'd expect from one.
Is the DHS story not widely known?
Five years later Mr Prince was doing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Harvard Business School, and the project was far from his mind, when he got an unexpected phone call from the US Department of Homeland Security asking him about the information he had gathered on attacks.
Mr Prince recalls: "They said 'do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is? Is there any way you would sell us that data?'.
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Of course it's not a CIA operation — that agency is foreign intelligence agency. The domestic intelligence agency is called NSA.
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The US Gov can just ask, and American corporations will deliver. No need to get their hands dirty.
I may be naive, but they offer a privacy service which adds a hop on the way. They don't control both their server and the third-party, and that is the whole point of the design, right?
How is that exactly what you would expert from a covert government operation?
Do we agree that the design goes through two hops, only one of which is controlled by Cloudflare? And that it is the whole point of the design?
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You want to say the intelligence agencies are the biggest protectors of piracy (Piracy websites love Cloudflare)?
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The more people join in and become dependent on CF, the more incentive there is to subvert CF. Or am I being dumb?
Another thing is the motivation to send people to work for CF. And another thing is the question of preparation vs hope.
Are you, by chance, an operative, sir? :)
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