[crazytalk]

Much easier to get a global view of Internet behaviour when there are only one or two DCs worth of ClickHouse clusters needing tapped

Related question: given this obviously generates logs, what are CloudFlare doing to protect log data in transit within its own network from similar attacks to the Google-NSA episode? ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i... )

[robocat]

What was to stop the NSA funding, creating, acquiring, or controlling CloudFlare so as to be useful for MITM surveillance?

[stjohnswarts]

I suspect the 5 eye countries don't have to pay a dime and have complete access to traffic and records on it. Hence everyone pushing encryption to at least make it a bit harder for them.