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pocksuppettoday at 10:07 AM6 repliesview on HN

The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers. Cloudflare is the LG TV of websites, but it's worse because we've known it has an always-on microphone and speech-to-text for over a decade and we still keep using it for some reason.


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esperenttoday at 10:11 AM

> The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers

You're replying to a comment talking about migrating from Google, so I assume you're claiming this is more of a risk with Cloudflare than Google (or other American providers like AWS)?

If so, what's your source for that claim?

aranelsuriontoday at 10:48 AM

> The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers.

I think it’s fair to assume that for most companies, cost is essentially zero on the company’s side.

thorbutttoday at 10:13 AM

That doesn't seem unique to Cloudflare though

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lukantoday at 10:23 AM

"We've known it has an always-on microphone and speech-to-text for over a decade"

Literally? What is the reference here?

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kakaciktoday at 10:22 AM

If you care about security and specifically NSA, don't use US clouds (owned or hosted), period. There is not a single one they don't have full access to, why should there be one.

Or clouds in general, its all wishful thinking and pinky promises.

CommanderDatatoday at 10:27 AM

Is there any evidence of this

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