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The ethical choice is for AWS and Google to collude and both allow signal to continue to using domain fronting.
by nerpderp83 8y ago
The ethical choice is for AWS and Google to collude and both allow signal to continue to using domain fronting.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoGreat PR opportunity for Cloudflare to pickup the torch. EDIT: Not supported by Cloudflare.
- komuW 8y agoCloudflare is against domain fronting https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/google-disables-domain-fronting-capability-used-to-evade-censors/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/googl...
- illumin8 8y agoDespite the use case for censorship circumvention, many malware command and control bots use domain fronting to bypass corporate web filters that otherwise might block their traffic. CloudFlare, being a security-focused CDN, most definitely does not want to help enable malware authors to bypass security.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoRussia had no problem whatsoever blocking both of them when blocking Tether a couple weeks ago.
- angry_octet 8y agoNo problem? They crippled their own use of the internet, at huge financial cost.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoWhere do you get that from? The Russian government blocked lots of AWS and Google IPs, and had no problem keeping them blocked until they agreed to stop allowing this, which was the same thing Telegram was using. And it doesn't appear that they cared about the "huge financial cost".