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Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by nilved on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:21PM (#8150190)
Speaking strictly, you're right, but when you consider (a) Cloudflare's connection to your server is insecure (b) Cloudflare is listening in on every request (c) Cloudflare blocks VPN and Tor users, it doesn't seem like such an obvious decision. But that's a false dichotomy, since everybody should use HTTPS, nobody should use HTTP, and, most importantly, nobody should be okay with third-parties snooping on your users.
Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by TheMakeA on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:41PM (#8150274)

    Cloudflare's connection to your server is insecure
This isn't always the case. The connection can be secure.
Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by rdl on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:53PM (#8150311)
Yeah, it can even be cert pinned, which is probably better than a non pinned end to end tls unless your attacker is local to you, due to the wonders of anycast. Also, like Google, we are constantly looking for malicious stuff like this on our IPs.
Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by ajtaylor on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:01PM (#8151095)
I had the same initial thought about (a), but the comments mentioned that CloudFlare issues a certificate you can install on your origin servers which will allow secure connections with CloudFlare.
Re:CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October by gcarre on Thursday August 07, 2014 @06:28PM (#8150445)
I'm using a VPN (tunnelbear) and I can access my website that's behind cloudflare