Amazon tells Signal’s creators to stop using anti-censorship workaround
Found on The Verge on Wednesday, 02 May 2018
The team behind secure messaging app Signal says Amazon has threatened to kick the app off its CloudFront web service unless Signal drops the anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting. Google recently banned the practice, which lets developers disguise web traffic to look like it’s coming from a different source, allowing apps like Signal to evade country-level bans.
Interesting how Moxie now complains that using a grayhat "feature" gets him in trouble while at the same time he did not allow other clients such as LibreSignal to federate with the Signal network, effectively creating a walled garden. Plus, while pointing out the privacy and security it provides, you still need to provide your phone-number. So you can't easily have multiple identities, and your anonymity has been breached at the moment you signed up.