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Installing Signal to try as well! Can Signal be taken down like WhatsApp if the same happens again in the future?
by julioneander 11y ago
Installing Signal to try as well!
Can Signal be taken down like WhatsApp if the same happens again in the future?
- vincentkriek 11y agoYes, Signal's advantage is the cryptographical security of the messages. It's NOT server independent.
- etiam 11y agoI 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?