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I know it's too late to engineer this at this point, but maybe Signal should consider adding a built-in Tor client. That way they can take advantage of the many
by cyphar 6y ago
I know it's too late to engineer this at this point, but maybe Signal should consider adding a built-in Tor client. That way they can take advantage of the many thousands of existing Tor bridges, and Tor has been proven to be pretty effective at censorship resistance over the years...
- kodablah 6y agoI doubt very much it's too late. Tor can be statically compiled into the apps, and assuming Signal is centralized, they can just run their own onion service and otherwise communicate as though they were using TCP.
- cyphar 6y agoI meant that it's too late to solve it for this particular censorship event. You'd need to add a UI for selecting bridges and configuring Tor, all of which is substantially more complicated than just adding support for custom single-hop HTTPS proxies.