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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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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

could matrix.org be as easily blocked, since it's decentralized I'm wondering?

At least it means that Signal is working as intended if they are blocking it, I guess that they don't have back doors.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being decentralized prevents DNS or IP blocks but not blocks through DPI.

Signal has an option to masquerade it's traffic as regular HTTPS, I don't know if Matrix can do such a thing.

https://x.com/signalapp/status/1821979304626155930

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can answer this! All matrix calls are over https APIs. Ports and addresses are stored in a text file on the base domain or in DNS txt entry.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, nice to have someone knowledgeable.

Would you say matrix is censorship resistant? I've very limited knowledge of it but given what you said I imagine that if I was trying to block matrix I would just need to query the url of the text file and check the DNS text entry, if either exist just add the domain to the blocklist.

[–] gytrash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

could matrix.org be as easily blocked, since it’s decentralized I’m wondering?>

Or SimpleX?

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

It cannot be easily blocked especially if you use your own homeserver every homeserver replicates the channel and it can operate without the original server! That's why signal and telegram are inherently flawed.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Matrix is in fact decentralized but in reality it is not so much, I don't know the number exactly but the majority of users use the matrix.org server

[–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Those numbers only include instances that have telemetry enabled