• Phoenixz
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    3 hours ago

    The point is that Cloudflare is a provider that you can choose to have as a part of your own infrastructure.

    It is NOT a man in the middle as man in the middle implies “attack”

    If Cloudflare is a man in the middle, i can make similar evil claims about anyone using Google Drive or Microsoft crapware. Loads of governments store sensitive documents on Microsoft services and Microsoft actually actively breaks contracts by messing with said data.

    At least, as far as we know, Cloudflare has no I’ll will.

    Yet

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 minutes ago

      Cloudflare is a provider that you can choose to have as a part of your own infrastructure.

      Indeed.

      man in the middle implies “attack”

      That can be a convenient shorthand if the parties in a discussion agree to use it as such in context. For example, in a taxonomy of cryptographic attacks, it would make sense. It is not the general meaning, though, at least not a universally accepted one. Similarly, “counter” does not imply “counter attack”, unless you happen to be discussing attack strategy.

      More to the point, nothing that I wrote misrepresents the situation. If I had meant attack, I would have said attack. Rather, someone made a leap of logic because I (like most of my colleagues) don’t happen to follow a convention that they like, and picked a fight over it. No thanks.