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Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"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..."

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[–] fira959@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Amazing how much BS is spread here

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 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