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Comment by nasredin

7 years ago

>>With Signal, it is not a single point of failure. The Android, iOS, desktop apps all do end-to-end encryption.

I meant DoS attack not encryption.

AFAIK all of these secure "apps" are NOT decentralized.

So if you can just block a certain IP, you'd have successfuly performed a DoS attack.

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