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Good, go ahead and pass those laws and I'll use Cloudfront to impersonate Amazon.com and steal credit card info, and Amazon will be legally unable to stop me.

• icebraining 9y ago
  You've misunderstood how the trick works. Nobody is impersonating anybody. To make an analogy, they're like a guy who tells the building security guard that they're going to apartment 5 (the Souq servers), but when they're in they actually go to apartment 8 (Signal's servers). Except the censors can only see the conversation with the guard, but they can't see where he actually goes, so they can't distinguish him from a real Souq visitor.
  • pm90 9y ago
    This is a nice analogy. The problem here is that the visitor has logged in that he is visiting apartment 5 in the guestbook. So if he ends up breaking something, security would hold apartment 5 liable (and not apartment 8). So it makes sense that apartment 5 does not want to be responsible.
    • icebraining 9y ago
      No, that's not the correct analogy, because Amazon is the building, and they know where he went to. There's no guestbook. The actual problem is that, since the censors can't distinguish them, they might stop everyone coming in to apartment 5, and potentially to the whole building.