I like the idea of a less profit-driven business that is maybe more community-focused but I wonder if they have the same capability as a bank? Have you been able to do your banking needs at a credit union? Was the customer service decent?

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    You may also want to checkout privacy post. They explicitly focus on security. They’ll use proton to send you scans of your paper mail with e2ee.

    https://privacypost.io/

    They’re pricy, though. I haven’t used them or their alternates yet.

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      thanks! I did not know about that one.

      Those mail services are a minefield in general. Most are compromised by Cloudflare. It’s crazy how companies handling inherently sensitive info like that are exposing their customers to Cloudflare.

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        What do you usually suggest as an alternative to CF?

        I used to work for a bank and managed to convince management to use a local company for DDOS protection. That bypassed the NSL risk of a US company, but it still gave a third party mitm power.

        Best I’ve seen is some in-house interstitial PoW page, like “Heray” – a proprietary system used by hetzner. But I haven’t found any FOSS solutions that are well documented and fairly trivial to deploy.

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          I’ve never been on the other side of that problem. And it’s not my problem, so I never looked too deeply into it. I just know if a bank or CU is using Cloudflare I am not using it.