Tag: cloudflare
  • May 11, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise

A recurrent theme on this blog has been the growing importance of controlling cross-border data flows, in part because of concerns about privacy. One increasingly popular approach with governments is to require data localization, whereby a country’s personal data remains within its borders. Although some companies like Facebook have been fighting this tendency, others providing … Continue reading “Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise”

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  • Sep 25, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, VPN,

WARP is not a VPN for privacy

You may have heard earlier this year that Cloudflare was planning a mobile VPN called WARP. Today, 9/5/19, Cloudflare has officially opened its WARP “VPN” feature on its popular 1.1.1.1. DNS encrypting app to the public – and it’s important to note that WARP is NOT private. What most people don’t notice is that the … Continue reading “WARP is not a VPN for privacy”

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  • Feb 23, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed is the worst privacy leak in recent Internet history

Cloudflare revealed today that, for months, all of its protected websites were potentially leaking private information across the Internet. Specifically, Cloudflare’s reverse proxies were dumping uninitialized memory; that is to say, bleeding private data. The issue, termed Cloudbleed by some (but not its discoverer Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero), is the greatest privacy leak of 2017 … Continue reading “Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed is the worst privacy leak in recent Internet history”

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