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Egypt blocks instant messaging applications

Egypt has state turning some applications of Messaging Instant during all the year, trying to of silence the freedom of expression of its citizens, however these services of equal way are the form of continue running. Lived the most recent case the app Signal, which lasted one week faulted these government measures.

While all could be resolved thanks to some functions new implemented by Open Whisper Systems, company American that manages the program, are several others them affected by the repression Egyptian, such as the giant WhatsApp and Skype.

He case of Signal called it attention, since this is a service whose messages is found encoded of end to end, preventing of this way that a third actor external-as the Government-can know what are speaking the parts involved in the conversation.

The provocations are perhaps the most valid argument that the political world could claim in this regard, since the company added the following line in the description of the update: “support for the mockery of censorship in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates“.

The controversy still has not gone to older, however as seems to be a SOAP Opera from long range that has been developing during practically all the 2016, so we are sure that follow emerging data in this respect in the course of the next few months.

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