Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by gue5t on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:03PM (#16970934)

Hardly reasonable. Domains are (in reality, if not in legislative fantasy) property of ICANN and merely rented by everyone else.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by CoryG89 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#16970980)

So? If we qualify it to preventing unauthorized use of one of their rented domains does that make it any less reasonable?

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by caf on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:03PM (#16973235)

The conceit here is that you must be "authorized" in order to write an app that puts the domain in question into the SNI field of a TLS connection that it initiates. I don't think that's reasonable.

It is of course up to Amazon what their servers then do when presented with such a connection, in particular whether they ensure the Host: header later presented matches the SNI data.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by bdcravens on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:36PM (#16971298)

So have they obtained the permission of ICANN? I rent my home, but I still call the police if there's a trespasser.

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