Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to various reports. Second, the app is still available in Apple’s App Store in China Reuters, but it is unclear how long it can last.
The Chinese government has not made any announcements about the blockade or ban on Signal in China, however The Signal website was not available in the country starting Monday. Google Play Store is not available in China, but Android users could download the app directly from the Signal website.
Signal did not immediately respond to questions sent by email early Tuesday.
Text message verification codes for Signal do not currently work in China, according to users who are discussing the cut Twitter, which would make new registrations to the service impossible for anyone using a phone number in mainland China. Some users were still able to accease Signal if they activated a VPN.
According to reports, there is signal I still work in Hong Kong, a region that was largely autonomous from the Chinese government before the crackdown in recent months has largely destroyed the “one country, two systems” approach to governance.
According to, China has added more than 500,000 downloads of Signal to iOS TechCrunch, although it is a relatively humble number in a country of 1.4 billion people. But Signal’s growth is likely to be worrisome for Chinese authorities trying to control and control everything that is done on the Internet in mainland China. Signal’s end-to-end encryption would have made it extremely difficult to control communications between two people in the application.
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The signal was developed by Open Whisper Systems, and has a lot of luggage since it did ties with the US intelligence community. But this story of origin sola fa a little surprising The signal was allowed in the interior of China. WeChat, which is not encrypted end to end, is by far the most popular messaging app in China.