“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    To be devils advocate in a sense, this may mean that it doesn’t have any backdoors that Russia or Venezuela can use, but the NSA or something still could have one of their own.

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      3 months ago

      Matrix doesn’t have encryption as the default

      Also Signal doesn’t have any backdoors. I can say that with high certainty as it has been audited more than any other messager.