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How is Signal tied to the region? What does it mean to “exit” India, exactly?
by alxmng 4y ago
How is Signal tied to the region? What does it mean to “exit” India, exactly?
- throwaway4good 4y agoApp store, dns, routable ip-address.
- NavinF 4y agoIt means they'll get banned from the app stores and have their server IPs blackholed.
- avidiax 4y agoThis is one of the pro/cons of trusting a messaging service from one of the big internet players. Sure Google/Facebook are profit-seeking enterprises, and won't put everything on the line for a privacy promise. However neither of those companies is terribly easy to just blackhole. You can blackhole some IPs, but you'll also be causing your own business and government endless technical headaches since those IPs also serve local ads, shared folders and documents, government outreach channels, cloud services, etc.