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Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor(www.reuters.com)

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treadful@lemmy.zip
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Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/9MEKt

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Nemeski@lemm.eeOP
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Not seeing paywall myself, clearing cookies and other site data might also help.

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Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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Can’t have secret talk amongst the peasants

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Telegram, including secret chats, is not blocked because Russian elites happen to use that, too.

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brrt@sh.itjust.works
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I could put on my tinfoil hat and say if signal is blocked but telegram isn’t, maybe that means that telegram isn’t as secret as they make it out to be.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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It’s open source. Look can up the encryption yourself.

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lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

I was very explicitly referring to secret chats.

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Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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Signal over Proton VPN Stealth protocol. All free, specifically for these types of situations.

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Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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Signal needs a phone number though

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Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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They did away with that some time ago.

EDIT: To clarify, it no longer shows the number.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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That’s not really the issue though, if you want to stay anonymous and not tell the government you use signal, since sms is insecure

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Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub
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They never stopped requiring a phone number to sign up.

They just let you hide this from other users now

I’m planning to get a prepaid burner to try signal but I’m a bit concerned about the fact my contacts are associated with a phone #

We are using simplex ATM

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Works with VoIP numbers though

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Treczoks@fedia.io
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Youtube, signal blocked. What is Putin afraid of?

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lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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Details or continued news of Ukraines special military operation to denazify Russia?

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Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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Snowden unavailable for comment.

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