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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,...
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...
Privacy services relying on the unsupported feature have been left high and dry
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...
The messaging app Signal used a technique called domain fronting to misdirect censors in certain regions.
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...
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...