INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News AgencyAmazon Web Services (AWS) is cracking down on domain fronting, a practice that some folks use to
get round state-level internet censorship of the likes seen in China and Russia (among other countries).Domain fronting essentially enables
access to a blocked (censored) domain by making the request to connect to that site appear to relate to a completely innocuous unrelated
to use is already a violation of our AWS Terms of Service
When we become aware of this type of activity, we deal with it behind the scenes by disabling abusive accounts
countermeasures to prevent domain fronting last month, so folks who engage in this practice are rapidly finding the online world a much
tougher place in which to pull the subterfuge off
Google made it clear that it never officially supported domain fronting in the first place.This comes at a time when state censorship is
becoming increasingly tight in many nations, with the likes of Russia and China clamping down not just on web content deemed inappropriate,
but on VPN services that can be a potential evasive measure, too.
