lasdfas
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
50 staging servers per seat ($1450 Value) 11GB RAM per server 8 CPUs per server
Not saying that a company could not have a malicious release. It could. I just think the odds are much lower because their release process has better security controls and is generally audited better.
Yes, the code is open source, but unless you download the code yourself and compile it, which not many people do on desktop and no one does for mobile clients, you have to trust the deploy process of a random group of people. None of the people even have to be malicious. They just have to have an insecure deploy process (which allows an attacker to insert code), which is extremely common in open source. Very few if any open source projects have audited their deploy process and have monitoring for vulnerabilities or exploits happening. It's just too time intensive/expensive for a side project someone isn't getting paid for.
I prefer to trust an organization that has gone through tons of audits. Not just on whether the client is secure (can encrypt securely), but that their software development lifecycle is secure. They also have a huge financial incentive to keep things secure, which is not the case in open source.
My only complaint is the security of it is not perfect. When you launch the tunnel, you declare the domain you want it to use. I can be any domain on the account and can't limit it to specific domains. It's a little dangerous if you have sensitive domains on your Cloudflare account that you don't want to use Argo.