All the companies involved in PRISM made public statements saying they ceased participation. Google undertook a costly initiative to add encrypted connections over their datacenter circuits. The NSA leaks were a forcing function that led to a massive uptake of encryption. Up until that point it was common for websites to support only HTTP.
replyThe NSA leaks dominated news cycles for the entirety of 2013.
> All the companies involved in PRISM made public statements saying they ceased participation. Google undertook a costly initiative to add encrypted connections over their datacenter circuits
replyThis is as helpful as Whatsapp's so called E2E encryption comms (that just happens to not be applicable by default in certain situations).
my llm api traffic terminates tcp at cloudflare in lovely plain text :/
replyit does give better peering. reduces latency a bit for me.
I had no idea that this was a thing. How can you figure out where SSL turns into plain text on its route to the destination?
replyin this case it's my design to use cloudflare.
replybut you can also see from curl or traceroute, that the endpoint you talked to was a cloudflare ip and your ssl ended there. after that you can't see inside cloudflare.