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by teorema 1824 days ago
Yes, here you have Briar bumping up against the inability to run any fully decentralized mobile communication software on iOS. Seems like a serious limitation on the part of iOS at this point given trends towards decentralization in general.
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The worst part is that an inactive background TCP connection is mostly free (of course, a Tor client is slightly more involved), so there is exactly 0 reason to forbid it, as long as apps are reviewed properly for abusive behavior (they are not).