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Re: Using Cloudflare as CDN for debian.org website




On 16/06/19 06.26, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 05:50:33AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
What is your position regarding Cloudflare's reCAPTCHA challenge feature I
mentioned earlier? Here are pros and cons of the feature:
Why on earth would we want to make it harder for people to read the
website?

Pros:

 • You can assure that (almost) all visitors are legitimate (human), since
   they must pass the challenge.
Why do you think that's a feature we care about?

In fact, several websites (such as Capezio, ProMods Map, and WHEELS.ca) have reCAPTCHA challenge enabled. Those sites just want to make sure that all visitors are humans. Feel free to visit those sites above for your consideration.

Why on earth would we want to make it harder for people to read the
website?

Because the website with reCAPTCHA challenge feature may violate "secure it without overdoing it" principle, that is, their webmasters tighten website security so much as to make their website harder to access.


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