Or does the operating system or ‘WeChat’ immediately report it to the government?

Maybe someone here can say something about this. Gladly also about ‘Briar’.

  • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    that can still work even if the goverment shuts down internet access

    Really? It can make Internet bills less expensive?

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      The offline function is meant for emergency or large scale protest like in Hong Kong, not for normal messaging. But yes if you have for example a big chat group then anyone who is in that group will share the encrypted chats to other devices in the same chat group that are in wifi/bluetooth range or connected to the internet(also tor network).

      The diagram explains it pretty well, but generally in case of a full internet blackout it works very well if you have a bunch of people close together (same building, group on the street, etc). You can also create a so called mesh of wifi networks(not connected to the internet just local network) that spans a very big area and it will work with that.

      If you have internet access it works like a completely normal messenger.