Subj : Re: Google Discontinues G Suite Legacy F
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Feb 02 2022 09:05:11

  Re: Re: Google Discontinues G Suite Legacy F
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Weatherman on Tue Feb 01 2022 07:22 am

 > I've been playing with Cloudflare for a couple of weeks, and the free
 > offering is really good. Proxying HTTP behind HTTPS looks promising, and any
 > opportunity to shield home servers is a good thing.
 > 

I think https->http gateways are just betraying the trust of end users.

There is this expectation that a TLS connection will be encrypted, at the very least,
until reaching an accelerator in the network of the systems serving the site. If you
have a gateway floating in the Internets, what you are doing is telling your users
that their connection is encrypted all the way to your system, while there is in fact
a big length from the gateway to your server that is non-encrypted.

Then there is the fact Cloudflare controls so much Internet traffic that they are a
Google level threat to Internet privacy, but that is another subject entirely :-)

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