There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend.
The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO, John Graham-Cumming, later helped break past the cryptography system’s lost password, which he blogged about with some technical detail here.
Second, my dear friend Om Malik published a great conversation with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince in his new newsletter Crazy Stupid Tech. Matthew and Om are influential thinkers to listen to, and their discussion contains a lot of interesting nuance about networks, censorship, and sovereignty.
Maybe this is not related to the topic, but when opening the links in this article I found one thing that interested me, John Graham-Cumming as Cloudflare’s CTO, apparently used Google’s Blogger as his blog, and he didn’t even choose a responsive theme. As a fan of Blogger (and of course WordPress too) I find it exciting to see people, especially IT people, writing blogs on Blogger.
I did not know about Vula, but what a great story to get lost in on a Sunday morning. I’m intrigued there is an Alberta (Edmonton and Tallcree First National) connection. The plot thickens….