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> "untargeted national snooping"

While I do not disagree with your sentiment, there have been cases of untargeted national snooping/censorship affecting sites with flexible SSL because governments can and often do sit between the local Cloudflare server and the origin.

https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo...

I've also been hoping that Cloudflare would add a header indicating the backend encryption status, so that we can look at how sites are configured and whether any "important" sites are using flexible SSL:

https://github.com/cloudflare/claire/issues/17




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