Signal is aware of the blocks.

“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    102·
    4 months ago

    Self defense is self defense, would we expect some different behavior from a country being attacked from outside interests with publicly accessible end to end encryption services?

    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
      49·
      4 months ago

      Publicly accessible: reviewed and audited by hundreds of teams that confirmed there’s no backdoor. Venezuelan, Russian and Chinese governments didn’t find the holes, even having access to the code. If they did, they would be exploiting it to… reeducate.

      Yeah, I would expect to trust that. Still, you said yourself, the problem is that is used by dissidents. And we can’t have that, right?

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
        51·
        4 months ago

        Open source, except when they do not publish it. Funded incredibly heavily buy the United States Intelegency Agencies. That would be more than enough to raise red flags for any nation that is not on the best terms with the United States.

        Signal in all likelyhood is a honey pot

        • fira959@lemmy.mlEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          Funded by the US? Well thats the entire internet, including Tor, Linux and Matrix…

          Amazing how much BS is spread here

          • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
            31·
            4 months ago

            The server is arguably more important, that is where the data and meta data itself are stored. Linux has never hid its source code for a year, and matrix can be self hosted.

            I mean if you want to trust a honey pot go right ahead

            • fira959@lemmy.mlEnglish
              13·
              4 months ago

              Your claim about it being a honey pot is entirely baseless. There is a significantly better chance you are working for the US to prevent people from using signal…

              • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
                31·
                4 months ago

                Yes because the US does not want you useing a central server in its jurisdiction so it can force the organistation to give out all the meta data while not being alowed to alert anyone. How dare you use something that could give the US so much information in one easy package

                • fira959@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  11·
                  4 months ago

                  You clearly have no clue how the internet or signal works. There is no information on signal servers that arent already available through the telcos, litterally zero

                  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
                    31·
                    4 months ago

                    Did I say the prefrence was to use normal telecomunication providers? or that the internet in general where super secure, no, but Signal is not secure either, and it in all likelyhood a honey pot