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Google Just Made Things a Lot Easier for Censors

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Google and Amazon have banned domain fronting, a key technique for hiding cybercrimes—and evading censorship, too. Millions of people can kiss their secure communications goodbye.

Kimberly Zenz
Kimberly Zenz
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