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Topic: Bitcointalk.org blocked by Cloudflare blocker! (Read 86 times)

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If you don’t do PGP, you don’t do crypto!
December 27, 2017, 01:34:39 AM
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There is a new twist to our Cloudflare problem:


That’s the message which will be seen when security-conscious users try to visit the Bitcoin Forum whilst using a new anti-MITM Firefox add-on by “cypherpunks”.  (It also works on Tor Browser—as you can see.)  A whitelist function is available.  I will henceforth be surfing with that; based on what he’s said, theymos may appreciate the suggestion to do likewise.

I noticed that theymos’ well-said complaint about Cloudflare is quoted in the sidebar of the extension’s homepage.  Hmmm.


The Internet is seriously flawed if everyone needs to huddle behind these huge centralized anti-DDoS companies in order to survive...

See also Tor Bug #18361, Tor Browser Bug #24351 (reported by me), Debian Bug #831835, Firefox Focus (mobile) Issue #1743, Mozilla Bug #1426618, and likely others.  People are beginning to wake up and realize exactly this:

[...] a man-in-the-middle in your HTTPS [...]

I especially dislike Cloudflare, which I'm almost certain is basically owned by US intelligence agencies. [...]

The security implications are that Cloudflare can read everything you send to or receive from the server, including your cleartext password and any PMs you send or look at.
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