Feds Couldn't Crack Signal, So They Banned It (youtube.com)
Most data warrants are from Cali.
Compare data requests made to Signal with that made to Facebook and other SM Giants.
Signal has an option now so people can only find them with their provided name ie handle, not with their phone.
A recent glowy request for like 7 accounts only had Signal provide 3 phone numbers, meaning only 3 of those numbers had registered with Signal, ie LE didn't know which ones had Signal. Before, you could easily type in a phone number and if there was an account with that number you'd find it, so this might be improving for quality.
Venezuela and Russia have blocked Signal by forcing Internet Provders to block connections to Signals website etc. But Signal has a privacy option for ‘censorship circumvention’ so it will connect to a proxy before Signal's servers. China has a similar thing for Tor because China wants to disallow Tor.
But the public proxys for Signal will probably get blocked, but you have to connect with a private unlisted proxy if you want to use it in a censorship country.
Mental Outlaw here notes that although Iran found a solution in blocking the entire internet from its citizens, this non-connected week also cost $1.5b to the economy.
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