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by mellamoyo 3699 days ago
> Just what sort of obscenely restrictive firewall are you behind?

Many companies block outbound on non-well known ports, for various reasons. tcp/443 is almost always available though.

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> Many companies block outbound on non-well known ports...

Mmmhmm. Yeah, I'm aware of that. :) However, click170 made no mention of a corporate firewall. He said:

> I just wish Signal was easier to get through a firewall.

Which is dramatically at odds with my and my friends experience with Signal; namely that it passes through firewalls with no configuration required.

If he would have mentioned that it was a corporate firewall that he was trying to get through, I expect his comment would have been much less popular, and much less confusing. :)