Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
by vincentkriek on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:21AM
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Yes, Signal's advantage is the cryptographical security of the messages. It's NOT server independent.
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Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
by etiam on Thursday December 17, 2015 @08:32AM
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I practice I agree, for now.
In principle, since both the Signal client and server are FLOSS, it should be possible to resist a block in some ways that might not be so easy with for example Whatsapp, but as far as I can tell, as things stand right now there is no built-in way to switch server, and asking millions of regular people to make changes to the source code of their cellphone software, recompile and manually reinstall does not seem like a recipe for success. I wonder if one might sensibly work around these things by fallback/optional connection to the server through Tor if Tor is available on the device?