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This is a quick way to further increase Signal's user base. If someone in India does not know about Signal, this type of "don't use it! it's noncompliant!" gove

This is a quick way to further increase Signal's user base. If someone in India does not know about Signal, this type of "don't use it! it's noncompliant!" government behavior will drive more users to the platform.

thepete2 5y ago
Couldn't the Government ban Signal relatively easily? A simple dns ban should suffice, no?
- viraptor 5y ago
  Signal responds to dns banning with their own tricks. Previously it was domain fronting https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ I'm sure they wouldn't leave India without a similar fight.
- Anunayj 5y ago
  DNS injection can be relatively easily bypassed by using DNS over HTTPS/TLS. ISPs usually block websites by terminating the connection on seeing a blacklisted SNI which is part of the TLS handshake (So the server can respond with the appropriate TLS certificate). The only way to bypass is either to use domain-fronting (aka using different SNI/Host, not standard-compliant, doesn't work with most CDNs), or use a different protocol. (Not that practical) ECH/eSNI plan [1] to make the SNI encrypted, and therefore uncensorable in future. (The draft is now in it's later stages). Ofcourse this can end up with government potentially blocking all ECH traffic. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni
0x5FC3 5y ago
Many have tried Signal in the past few months here in India because of WhatsApp's privacy policy changes which managed to create quite a buzz. None of my friends stuck around though. Everyone is back to WhatsApp.