Security News

Jigsaw releases Intra, an Android app that encrypts DNS queries to thwart online censorship
2018-10-04 13:36

Alphabet subsidiary and tech incubator Jigsaw, which concentrates on creating solutions for “the toughest geopolitical challenges,” has released Intra, an Android apps that encrypts DNS queries....

Wickr Announces General Availability of Anti-Censorship Tool
2018-10-04 12:27

As the balkanization of the internet continues, traveling businessmen are left with concerns over the integrity of their communications from some regions of the globe. Increasing censorship,...

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...