Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com

Re:Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqc... by buildbuildbuild on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:53PM (#16869409)

Google or another more privacy-supporting company could block domain fronting for everyone _except_ Signal, Tor, and similar projects, with some sort of application process. Blocking everyone seems heavy handed but fronting itself is ultimately a sneaky way around censorship rather than an intended feature.

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Re:Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqc... by askmike on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:11PM (#16869546)

So the decision on what apps can be domain fronted because they need to get around censorship lies with Google or another big company, what could go wrong here?

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Re:Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqc... by Spivak on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:36PM (#16869783)

I mean the entire trick to domain fronting is that some large company, whose site no country would dare censor, offers up their infrastructure as a front.

Who else do you think should decide who gets to host content through Google's servers?

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Re:Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqc... by askmike on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:10AM (#16873946)

> whose site no country would dare censor

Google is not accessible to about 1.4 billion people because the single government of China "dares" to censor Google. That's close to 20% of the world's population.

I don't think companies nor governments should get to decide this at all. Information wants to/should be free.

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