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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by nerpderp83 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:44PM (#16972000)
The ethical choice is for AWS and Google to collude and both allow signal to continue to using domain fronting.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:45PM (#16972443)
Great PR opportunity for Cloudflare to pickup the torch.

EDIT: Not supported by Cloudflare.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by komuW on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:31PM (#16972721)
Cloudflare is against domain fronting https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/googl...
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by illumin8 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:34PM (#16973614)
Despite 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.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by s73v3r_ on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:12PM (#16972969)
Russia had no problem whatsoever blocking both of them when blocking Tether a couple weeks ago.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by angry_octet on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:53AM (#16976041)
No problem? They crippled their own use of the internet, at huge financial cost.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:28PM (#16979831)
Where 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".
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