Blocking access to the Safe network

[archytect]

Would it be possible for an ISP or a government firewall to block whatever connections are being made to whatever the Safe browser calls to access the network? The same way China tries to block VPNs?

[anon57419684]

@archytect

If Safe succeeds as a decentralized permissionless (uncensorable) network it’ll be targeted for attack by state, corporate, and criminal actors. Everyone!

That’s why I think it’ll become especially important for the protocol and traffic to be more than encrypted; obfuscated:

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