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Hypothetically, your government manages to ban all encrypted communication apps, what is your gameplan now? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

i’ve read that many apps can be not just banned but blocked. now i don’t have a source at hand but i heard that russia blocks not just signal but also matrix, meaning that it doesn’t necessarily matter whether the app is open source. similarly i’ve read that deep packet inspection can block things like sslvpn and wireguard.

still, blocking delta chat is really quite difficult, as russia has noticed and got angry about, so there should probably still be a way unless the country also blocks all email communication

[–] artyom@piefed.social 15 points 8 months ago

They can block Signal because it is centralized. Signal knows this and built proxies into the app for this purpose.

Similarly they can block the main matrix.org server but since it's decentralized you can still use any of the thousands of servers they may not even know exists.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Russia's long term plan seems to be blocking Western networks and force the bulk of domestic users to the Max messenger, which implements inspectability a la ChatControl. Apropos: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

You can tunnel through the Great Chinese Firewall fine, if you know what you're doing.