A friend was in Oman last week and said Signal doesn't work there. Not sure if the mitigations @whispersystems deployed in 2016 are still in place for +968... https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/30/encrypted-chat-app-signal-sidesteps-censorship-in-cuba-and-oman/ … #privacy #censorship
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Replying to @mralanorth
Censorship circumvention is still active. Were they using a non-Oman phone number?
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Replying to @signalapp @whispersystems
Yes, they were using a non-Oman number (Jordan, +962). Thank you!
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Replying to @mralanorth
You're welcome! We'd still like to include proactive detection so that Signal can automatically enable the functionality when users with different numbers are in an affected country.
4:51 PM - 11 Dec 2017
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