China largely blocks WhatsApp’s text message workaround

Symbolic Software’s Nadim Kobeissi told The Verge that it likely took a while for the Chinese government to figure out how to configure its infamous firewall to detect and block the heavily encrypted protocol WhatsApp uses to send text messages. Since the country’s efforts paid off, that could mean that it now has the capability …

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