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  • Yea, meaningless (not to criticism Signal, good for them for saying so). Just meaningless from Sweden government perspective - it’s not like they can simply block Signal. They could, but it would take a lot of effort, and it would be a continually losing game. As I mentioned, I can run a Wireguard/Tailscale network at home, or on a VPS not in Sweden. Good luck figuring out what traffic is in my stream.

    It’s feasible, but the effort on their part increases non-linearly with every person that does this.


  • Well, yea, we know that.

    But saying they’ll block anything without a back door is meaningless, as anyone can run their own VPN these days, and a government attempting to block it is not very smart, as it’ll take a lot more effort for them to constantly try to track down the connections.

    China can do it because they control all exits from the country network, and will take aggressive pysical action against someone bypassing their controls. And yet people still maintain connections that The Great Firewall can’t block.