Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So you can talk to… yourself?

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m using signal right now for a family group, so complex solutions won’t work

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• KitKatKitCat@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A VPN should have been my first thought. Rookie error on my part.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As someone who has toyed with using one to get around my state’s porn ban a little, sometimes it just routes me other states with porn bans. So it’s not necessarily a magic fix. It’s better than nothing but if everyone starts banning something you will have trouble.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Any good VPN will let you choose the jurisdiction of the endpoint.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, but typically not for free.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not au fait with this but can you use a raspberry pi for a makeshift vpn or something?

  Seems like a thing the tech savvy people do

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  • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The raspi still needs to be out of the country for it to work how you want it to. They may block vpn providers, but they just can’t block wireshark connecting to a off shore server because they would shutdown alot of methods, buissnesses use to transfer data. Well they could but it be some next level stupid.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah that’s a shame. I guess it could still be used as an adblocker. Time to go research VPNs

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can but it’s unnecessary. For most people just configuring each device to use a vpn is the path of least resistance.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve just seen a comment about the UK floating vpn bans and am considering the possibility in Australia so I’m probably commenting in the wrong thread.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The UK needs to ban VPNs. To, uh, protect the children.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The problem is everyone you chat with would also have to do this… unless you’re talking with people outside of Australia or can convince everyone else to also get a VPN.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve just seen a comment about the UK floating vpn bans and am considering the possibility in Australia so I’m probably commenting in the wrong thread.

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• theroff@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Will Signal block Australian IP addresses, or nix accounts that have a +61 phone number? I’d assume the former but if Signal and other social media platforms go for the latter it will be painful for Australian netizens.

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