Security News

Russian Censorship of Telegram
2018-06-13 11:55

Internet censors have a new strategy in their bid to block applications and websites: pressuring the large cloud providers that host them. These providers have concerns that are much broader than...

Google and Amazon put an end to censorship-dodging domain fronting
2018-05-03 14:36

Privacy services relying on the unsupported feature have been left high and dry

Amazon to kill off censorship-foiling domain fronting option
2018-05-02 18:52

Secure messaging services and other privacy-oriented tools that rely on domain fronting to foil censorship efforts by various countries have been dealt a severe blow in the last month. First...

As Google and AWS kill domain fronting, users must find a new way to fight censorship
2018-05-02 12:16

The messaging app Signal used a technique called domain fronting to misdirect censors in certain regions.

How Signal Is Evading Censorship (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-28 12:20

Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's new anti-censorship feature...

HTTP error code 451 will signal online censorship (Help Net Security)
2015-12-22 12:11

A new, official HTTP error code has been assigned to denote instances where governments restrict access to specific websites: 451. The number is a reference to Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenhei...