“We respectfully urge you to reconsider your decision to prohibit domain fronting given the harm it will do to global internet freedom and the risk it will impose upon human rights activists, journalists, and others who rely on the internet freedom tools,” the senators wrote. Amazon then warned the developers of encrypted messaging app Signal that the organization would be banned from Amazon’s cloud services if the service didn’t stop using Amazon’s cloud as cover. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter on Tuesday to Google CEO Larry Page and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over decisions by both companies in April to ban domain fronting. senators over the tech giants’ decisions to ban domain fronting, a technique used to circumvent censorship and surveillance around the world. 'And that's what our job is.We want to make sure there's high availability around secure communication.Amazon and Google face sharp questions from a bipartisan pair of U.S. 'The user just wants the data to get where it needs to go,' said Wallenstrom. 'If you're dropping into the local coffee shop to get something done, the user experience doesn't work.'

'I can tell you for certain there's a major coffee shop that gives away free WiFi but they block UDP, which basically kills Voice over IP connections,' he said. Wallenstrom contends secure comms has become a necessity just to deal with network irregularities. 'When these consumer products soak into the enterprise, there's a point where people say, now I need to figure out how to control this,' said he, noting that's happening with Slack, the popular group chat app. Joel Wallenstrom, CEO of Wickr, says such security issues are particularly acute in enterprises. Pointing to the ongoing attacks on political campaigns, Lalonde said, 'We've been so beat up by our adversaries that we have to figure out how to secure things differently.' Security Now it gets attention from organizations interested in secure communications. When Wickr was started, it was for NGOs, said Wickr COO Chris Lalonde, in a phone interview with The Register.

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