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Messaging service blocked in Iran after thousands migrated from WhatsApp over privacy concerns
Privacy experts have described the Signal messaging app to be more secure than its rivals (AFP) By Published date: 5 February 2021 15:51 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago
Signal has asked users to set up TLS proxy servers to help Iranians bypass censorship of the app, after Iran blocked the encrypted messaging platform.
A TLS proxy, or Transport Layer Security, provides additional networking services against a DOS (denial of services) attack used to block websites or applications.
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Published date: 29 January 2021 16:40 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago
Like many people across the globe, Iranians have been spooked by WhatsApp s recent announcement that it would be sharing data with parent company Facebook. In response, they have been flooding to the messaging app s rival, Signal.
This month, Signal became the most-downloaded app in Iran. On Monday, it was suddenly blocked and removed from local Android markets.
Ever since Signal simultaneously hit #1 on the Play Store and #1 on the government s block list, we ve been working around censorship.
Unable to stop registration, the IR censors are now dropping all Signal traffic.
Iranian people deserve privacy. We haven t given up. Signal (@signalapp) January 25, 2021
Iran Denies Secret Talks With U.S. Are Underway, But They Have Happened Before By Patrick Goodenough | January 27, 2021 | 4:57am EST
Iranian diplomat Majid Takht-Ravanchi, left, photographed in Tehran in 2015 with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and chief negotiator Abbas Araghchi, was a key player in the multilateral talks that produced the Iran nuclear deal. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Iranian regime on Tuesday denied that any talks have been held thus far with the new U.S. administration, two days after a regional paper cited a source in the Iranian presidency as saying that secretive, informal contacts have occurred both before and since President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The conversation reportedly took place among concerns rising in the Israeli government about US President Biden s intent to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, abandoned by.