Wickr gets slicker with fresh network tricker: Privacy-protecting domain fronting alternative emerges

Encrypted comms service Wickr has hooked up with Psiphon, a maker of censorship circumvention tools, to provide an alternative to domain fronting as a defense against prying eyes online. Domain fronting is a technique for hiding requested network hostnames from those monitoring your internet traffic. It presents one hostname …

[GruntyMcPugh]

Is that Wicker Man in the title picture,....

... the one from beside the M5?

Shame the Morrisons warehouse dominates the view now.

[GnuTzu]

SSL Inspection/Intercept

Oh my--another reason organizations with web proxies will need to do SSL inspection/intercept, as that is the only way to see and block mismatched URL host names within an encrypted CONNECT.