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 If Russia has blocked Simplex at the network level, it means that Simplex is private! This is good news!

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 Can you please explain this a bit? Why does blocking mean it's private? 
 They have blocked both signal and simplex access...worry about blocking a niche application like simplex...from my point of view is that they have studied it and realized that it works very well.

Important because simplex does not depend on a third party you can have your own infrastructure. 
 Doesn't really mean much if the tool is rendered useless because of it...

Radio, it always comes to radio & IRL comms in the end. 
 The core routing & switching is their infrastructure, skip it. 
 It doesn't specifically mean it's private, but it's an indication that Putin believes it provides a level of privacy that is simply unacceptable to Russia. It's almost like an endorsement.  
 Evgeny is actively working on a fix to Russia's block of SimpleX. He thinks he'll have a solution in the coming week. You can get around it by using certain tor relays, but that's not solution as it requires specific manual intervention.  
 since when has it been blocked ? 
 Just talked to him and apparently they've blocked port 5223, which is used by SMP servers, as well as xmpp w/TLS. He's going to configure fallback to port 443 with websockets to get around the block.  
 Just talked to him and apparently they've blocked port 5223, which is used by SMP servers, as well as xmpp w/TLS. He's going to configure fallback to port 443 with websockets to get around the block.  
 🫡 Thanks for the info