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Re:Https hurts users far away from the server by jacquesm on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:55PM (#13841018)
You seem to mis-understand how cloudflare works. They allow an insecure host to pose as a secure one and the traffic between cloudflare and the insecure host is not encrypted.

That problem would not exist on 'any 3rd party host'.

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Re:Https hurts users far away from the server by manigandham on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:34PM (#13841367)
CF is the same as any other CDN with TLS termination. Every host that provides a load balancer, or a server, or some other internal network connection like a VPN, can be compromised. Cloudflare is nothing special in this regard.
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