[ben_w]

Given Snowden, I have to assume Cloudfare is under the thumb of at least the NSA.

For example, all the usual arguments against backdoors are going to be used by intelligence agencies to justify "providing assistance", which isn't even merely a euphemistic excuse given how incredibly valuable it would be for normal organised crime to spy on some of the encrypted data… but also is at least a bit of a euphemism, as I have to assume the controversies about terrorist groups using Cloudfare are only pemitted to happen because someone in US intelligence knows how to squeeze secrets from those groups.

In theory, messing with SSL is one of Cloudfare's features, not a secret; in practice I suspect most end users treat all this as magic — I've directly witnessed magical thinking with the padlock icon in browsers.

[fragmede]

that isn't even so much of a conspiracy theory if you look at what happened to qwest