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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the reading-your-mail dept.

According to an article on engadget today, Egypt is blocking access to the encrypted messaging application Signal, made by Open Whisper Systems.

Egypt has blocked its residents from accessing encrypted messaging app Signal, according to the application's developer. Mada Masr, an Egypt-based media organization, reported yesterday that several users took to Twitter over the weekend to report that they could no longer send or receive messages while on Egyptian IP addresses. Open Whisper Systems, the team behind the app, told a user asking about a situation that everything was working just as intended on their end. Now that the company has confirmed that the country is blocking access to Edward Snowden's preferred messaging app, it has begun working on a way to circumvent the ban. They intend to deploy their solution over the next few weeks.

Signal can be downloaded here for android and here for ios


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday December 22 2016, @02:59AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday December 22 2016, @02:59AM (#444596) Homepage

    I'm usually in agreement that Muslims are backwards savages, but Egypt's military overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood as a result of the two latter cracking down on protesters.
    Egypt is one more valuable American ally turned towards the Russians due to discontent with American foreign policy. I'm too lazy to look up the exact effect of the Arab Spring (aka American meddling Soros-style) on the transition of power between Hosni Murabak and Morsi, but the nature of the Islamic beast is that Westerners cannot understand it, they cannot reason with it, and so should destroy it instead of trying to tame it.

    It's like trying to tame a starving rabid dog and earn its trust -- it will bite everyone in its path, including its handlers.