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Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting

Rejected submission by takyon at 2018-05-02 18:21:58 from the can-stop-the-signal dept.
Digital Liberty

Amazon tells Signal's creators to stop using anti-censorship tool [theverge.com]

The team behind secure messaging app Signal says Amazon has threatened to kick the app off its CloudFront web service unless Signal drops the anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting. Google recently banned the practice [theverge.com], which lets developers disguise web traffic to look like it's coming from a different source, allowing apps like Signal to evade country-level bans. As a result, Signal moved from Google to the Amazon-owned Souq content delivery network. But Amazon implemented its own ban [theverge.com] on Friday. In an email that Moxie Marlinspike — founder of Signal developer Open Whisper Systems — posted today [signal.org], Amazon orders the organization to immediately stop using domain-fronting or find another web services provider.

Also at TechCrunch [techcrunch.com] and TechRepublic [techrepublic.com].

See also: A Google update just created a big problem for anti-censorship tools [theverge.com]
APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR [fireeye.com]

Previously: Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship [soylentnews.org]

Related: Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App [soylentnews.org]


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