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This title is misleading and borderline incorrect. He accepts that unencrypted traffic to specific IPs can be intercepted in accordance with a government order. He does not accept that all unencrypted traffic can be sniffed, or that any encrypted traffic can be decrypted.


> MediaNama: As far as I understand, they wouldn’t know the IP address of the host server?

> Matthew Prince, Cloudflare: They should not. That is true.

> MediaNama: So the only way they can understand what to block via this route is by sniffing every packet?

> Matthew Prince, Cloudflare: That is what I’m concerned about, but we don’t have a satisfactory answer at this point. But you are correct, that is what I infer.




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