Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen...
by ForHackernews on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:43AM
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> Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com
It's souq.com, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq.com It's an e-commerce site targeted at the middle east that Amazon bought as their play for that market.
Signal deliberately chose it because it's an Amazon domain, so governments would be reluctant to block it.
It's souq.com, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq.com It's an e-commerce site targeted at the middle east that Amazon bought as their play for that market.
Signal deliberately chose it because it's an Amazon domain, so governments would be reluctant to block it.