Youtube, signal blocked. What is Putin afraid of?
Details or continued news of Ukraines special military operation to denazify Russia?
Can’t have secret talk amongst the peasants
Telegram, including secret chats, is not blocked because Russian elites happen to use that, too.
I could put on my tinfoil hat and say if signal is blocked but telegram isn’t, maybe that means that telegram isn’t as secret as they make it out to be.
It’s open source. Look can up the encryption yourself.
No need, all you have to do is read the whitepaper. they home brewed the encryption algorithm and nobody actually knows if it’s worth a damn. That’s not exactly a secret.
nobody actually knows if it’s worth a damn.
After all these years, security researchers still don’t know if the encryption is any good?
And it isn’t even encrypted by default, you manually have to enable that. By default, all your plain text messages are stored on their servers.
They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.
Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.
You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.
Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.
Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways?
Probably Russians who used Signal before.
The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.
Can it be proven that that encryption is what’s used in practice?
Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.
Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.
Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.
I was very explicitly referring to secret chats.
Signal over Proton VPN Stealth protocol. All free, specifically for these types of situations.
Signal needs a phone number though
They did away with that some time ago.
EDIT: To clarify, it no longer shows the number.
They never stopped requiring a phone number to sign up.
They just let you hide this from other users now
I’m planning to get a prepaid burner to try signal but I’m a bit concerned about the fact my contacts are associated with a phone #
We are using simplex ATM
That’s not really the issue though, if you want to stay anonymous and not tell the government you use signal, since sms is insecure
Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/9MEKt
Not seeing paywall myself, clearing cookies and other site data might also help.
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I hope Roskomnadzor doesn’t chase after the fediverse next.
How would you? You’d have to block every instance.
They could start by blocking the biggest instances, then slowly chasing after the smaller ones.
There’s not an infinite amount of instances, even if new ones are made, they’ll get all of them eventually. So this is basically a cat and mouse game.
