_cryptagion [he/him]

I’ve seen a lot of FOSS purists before, but this guy has gotta be the Linux equivalent of one of those dudes who lives in the forest with a tin hat so the guberment can’t read his thoughts.

if you think everyone around you is an asshole, you’re the asshole.

Most people I run across aren’t assholes, you’re just an exception.

be clear when you say shit and people won’t misunderstand you and treat you like a fucking moron.

Obviously, when name Cloudflare specifically more than once, it can be so hard to tell which platform I mean. It’s an easy mistake to make if you don’t know how to read.

not knowing how a platform specific product works doesn’t dictate intelligence.

No, but using hostility as a way to distract from when you’ve gone and made yourself look like an idiot is certainly a defense commonly used by, as you put it, “fucking morons”. Now, is there any other pearls of wisdom you want to offer us, Mr. Trump, or was your eternally youthful ardor spent on that one emission?

Well, if you were so smart yourself, you would know the Cloudflare certs aren’t for public use. The certs your site uses to communicate with the user are shared among multiple Cloudflare users, and aren’t accessible to anyone but Cloudflare. You can’t generate, revoke, view, or download them. The decade long certs you generate are for communication between your origin server and Cloudflare, they aren’t exposed to the public internet. If you use an Argo tunnel, which many selfhosters do, they’re used for the secure VPN tunnel between yourself and Cloudflare. Since all your traffic comes from Cloudflare, a smart user would whitelist those IPs and ignore web traffic from everything else if they weren’t going to use a tunnel. Even if someone got ahold of them, which is unlikely, they wouldn’t do anyone any good, because they would need access to your Cloudflare account as well to change the origin server.

But then, you aren’t so smart yourself. You’re just some random nobody on the internet that decided to start using their arsehole for speaking. And as is typical in such a situation, everything you say reeks of shit.

Now, do you want to continue embarrassing yourself? Because you’re not hurting my feelings by doing so.

You’re just not a pleasant person, are you? Every time you’ve replied to one of my posts, it’s to be a twatwaffle.

An ignorant twatwaffle, considering you obviously have no idea how Cloudflare certs work. Which ends up making me look like I’m smarter than I really am, so thanks!

Yeah, it’s a huge PITA to just, you know, click the button to generate a new cert and revoke the old one.

You don’t need to put the server in the DMZ, just port forward port 80 and 443. Most routers these days ignore all requests to ports that aren’t open. And stick it behind Cloudflare, so you don’t have to expose your IP. Cloudflare also allows you to generate SSL certs that are good for a decade.

Ah, I should have guessed that from the quotes, huh? That was my bad.

So your position is that they did something you didn’t like a decade ago, and so that makes them untrustworthy now?

At least you’ve admitted that your argument is nothing more than an opinion.

That’s very good advice. The article you links specifically says “Allegedly” in the title. Let me save you the hassle of getting a dictionary and explain to you the definition of “allegedly”:

used when something is said to be true but has not been proved [source]

The article not only does not provide proof, but it admits that it does not provide it. You, however, continue to insist it does because you want it to be true.

Then you didn’t read it very good, if you not only missed the fact the article was alleging Proton was hacked by Israel, as well as believe it provides proof of that claim when it does not.

No, the post is a conspiracy theory that gives no evidence to support the claim. You can’t use an allegation as evidence to support your allegation, that’s circular logic.

Now the “Switzerland” based privacy firm is proxied by an Israeli firm for traffic analysis, network exploitation of users, cryptographic monkeying

It literally claims that the traffic was routed expressly for the purpose. You didn’t read the article.

It should be noted everywhere that this person posts this, that this is an allegation without any actual evidence to support it.

No, you provided a conspiracy theory that fit your explicit biases. If you had bothered to actually read the link you provided, you would know they didn’t provide any evidence to support their claim that Israel is hacking Proton.

If this is as bad as the scandals with Proton ever get, I’ll be quite happy.

That didn’t answer the question. You made an assertion, but haven’t provided any evidence to support that claim.

The irony of saying something like that when you’re using an ISP with Trump supporters on the board of directors is wild.

Cryptostorm. Supports port forwarding, and you can buy access tokens through third parties using crypto. You do not register an account or provide them with any information to use the service, other than the token.

But honestly, Proton is the best route to go.

It would be more accurate to say some people are moving away. The majority of their users are quite happy where they are.