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Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think any ban on such selfhostable servers is enforceable at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well in the end it's just HTTPS traffic.. police has to search your phone to know if you are a user.

but if you federate (on clearnet), that could give away that you host it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, technically, they could MITM the traffic similarly to how they did to jabber . ru. But a) there are mitigations for this and b) more importantly - they would need to bother. No one's going to bother doing it to a random family server that has attracted no previous attention.