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📛 Two of today's biggest cloud service providers (Amazon & Google) are now blocking a technique called "domain fronting" that has been used by websites and applications to avoid government-based censorship, but also by malware to secretly siphon stolen data to covert servers.
Based on the statements issued by both Amazon and Google, the banning of domain fronting has nothing to do with Russia's recent attempts to ban Telegram, during which Russia's communications watchdog ordered ISPs to block nearly 20 million IPs belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud services.
Signal has published a blog post revealing that Amazon has threatened to kick the IM app off its servers if it doesn't stop using domain fronting.
May 1, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cloud/amazon-follows-google-in-banning-domain-fronting/
Based on the statements issued by both Amazon and Google, the banning of domain fronting has nothing to do with Russia's recent attempts to ban Telegram, during which Russia's communications watchdog ordered ISPs to block nearly 20 million IPs belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud services.
Signal has published a blog post revealing that Amazon has threatened to kick the IM app off its servers if it doesn't stop using domain fronting.
May 1, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cloud/amazon-follows-google-in-banning-domain-fronting/