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A comment on CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October. Parent comment

Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by nly on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:02PM (#8150114)
It's reasonable to suppose that the NSA have a whole bunch of private signing keys for a whole bunch of CAs, and will just MITM anyone they please regardless of our puny efforts.
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Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by eli on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:15PM (#8150162)
I'm not sure that's a safe assumption and, regardless, an active MITM attack is a much bigger deal than passively collecting traffic as it flows past you in the clear.
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