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There's a lot of important data that runs through Cloudflare, so I think it's a bit naive to think that there's nothing interesting for the NSA there.

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Of course, but the comment I was replying to stated:

"the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers"

Which implies that they are looking at it all and records it.

The vast, vast majority of Cloudflare's traffic is worthless to an intelligence agency.

They are actively scanning all of it, looking for interesting stuff.

How do you do DPI on hundreds of PBs a day? Explain the process that would allow you to "look for interesting stuff".

With a lot of fast ASICs and by aggressively discarding stuff you don't want. It's not magical.

I'm more concerned about crimeflare's own incentive to analyze our traffic that people already willingly let them MITM, and somehow sell it to the highest bidder.

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