Greetings.

Didier Kryn - 22.11.25, 11:16:47 CET:
> Le 21/11/2025 à 18:34, g4sra via Dng a écrit :
[…]
> > My experience has been that these decisions are made by
> > upper-management, often ignoring advice from their own IT Departments.
> > I appreciate that not all companies behave this way, just that I
> > have never been employed by one that did not.
>

>      It was in the news two days ago that many web sites over the world
> had stopped working because some site in the US named cloudflare was
> temporarily broken. All over the world, there are cybersecurity
> officers, and these have been unable to prevent such insecurity.

AFAIK many sites, including some bigger free software related sites use
Cloudflare for protecting their sites against DDoS and other attacks.
Often enough in a way that is not transparent to the user. I.e. the user
only gets to notice Cloudflare is in use, in case there is a failure with
either Cloudflare or the backend server.

This protection may or may not work generally, however centralizing
traffic in such a way is directly against the original intention behind
the Internet as a decentralized network.

We have seen it with Microsoft 365, with Azure, with Amazon Web Services
and now with Cloudflare. Those providers are simply not to big to fail.

They fail. And if they do the impact is big.

>      I suspect this behaviour of the web site designers is actively 
> pushed by the ad buzyness and by the US government who all want that 
> every piece of data goes trough the US territory in view of spying. I'm
> pretty sure that my communications with my son 10km away from me
> through whatsapp cross several times the Atlantic ocean. What a mess!

Interesting thought. And I sure bet there is some truth in it.

Best,
--
Martin