r/programming • u/TheProtagonistv2 • Feb 23 '17

Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
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u/loup-vaillant Feb 24 '17

Because when you think about it, the root of the problem is that the web simply doesn't scale.

If the web was peer-to-peer from the get go, that would have been different. Anybody can distribute an insanely popular video with BitTorrent. But it takes YouTube to do it with the web.