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Am honestly not trolling here although it will sound like it: Can someone please explain to me why it's a OK to reconnect Iranians to Signal, but not Trump supporters to Twitter (the ones censored and banned by Twitter)?
Because Signal didn't block Iran? This is false equivalence.
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They could literally have a hidden function in WhatsApp that scoops up all your chat history and sends it to Facebook if the government ask them to. It’s closed source. No one has a clue what it’s doing. To be clear I’m not suggesting this is absolutely happening. I’m merely pointing out it’s entirely possible from a technological perspective given it’s closed source software owned by Facebook. That’s not a recipe fo…
The same is true of Signal in most practical ways. You can only run it on platforms that are fundamentally closed-source (either iOS or Google Play Services), so there's no reason to believe the RNGs it uses (and therefore all your session keys) are not backdoored. And you can only install it through official app stores where it's difficult or impossible to inspect what binary you have or "pin" a given version. So I…
If I wanted to I could install a fork of Signal that doesn't require Google Play [1] and run it on any non-Google Android build. I would do if it wasn't for the fact I'm currently using an iPhone.
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They can block these proxies. Thats why in the #IRanASignalProxy section they say to share in more discrete ways if you can.
Which to me is bad. They should run a service like Tor does to get private bridges. I don't know anyone in Iran but I have a server I could use for this. However I know zero people in Iran.
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I'm surprised that Tor isn't integrated already. Moxie was pushing that at Twitter - a prototype was even built.
These blocks tend to be reactive, so if a blocked app starts using Tor, Iran will block Tor fairly quickly. So in return for a short-lived regain of the use of Signal, all of Tor gets blocked. This proxy arrangement is better because folks who start them tell their friends in Iran, who tell their friends, but it isn't listed publicly, like most Tor entry nodes are. When the authorities find a proxy and block it, they…
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Good point! I wonder why they didn't reverse the scheme, e.g. https://mydomain.example.org/#is-a-signal-proxy
AFAIK you can register URL handlers for a specific domain (signal.tube), but not for a specific hash. And you don't want Signal to appear as an alternative browser on every link. Edit: On a second thought, I wonder if a custom scheme would have worked, e.g. signal-proxy://example.com?
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Are there any instructions to build the app yourself for signal?
Yes, they have some docs on GitHub for how to do it: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil... You can build the iOS version too for development: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUILDING... I haven't done it before but you should even be able to deploy that build to your phone in theory: https://codewithchris.com/deploy-your-app-on-an-iphone/ It's unclear to me if there are a…
You can certainly get your own build working (without notifications and other features). But personally I found it prohibitively difficult to do so.
Unless Iran totally kills its internet to all.
Sure there is the dark side that it could be used to organize crimes and terror, but I think we have to recognize the right to meaningful communication and privacy.
Signal gives me hope on the internet of the future.
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Are there any instructions to build the app yourself for signal?
Yes, they have some docs on GitHub for how to do it: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil... You can build the iOS version too for development: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUILDING... I haven't done it before but you should even be able to deploy that build to your phone in theory: https://codewithchris.com/deploy-your-app-on-an-iphone/ It's unclear to me if there are a…