MIAMI.- Last Thursday, Republican Congresswoman for Florida’s 27th District, Maria Elvira Salazar, urged voters to Cubans who are on the island to download and use the Delta Chat mobile messaging application to maintain free communication even though the regime of restrict internet access.
According to the congresswoman, the APP is capable of “using the dictatorship’s own cell phone towers and signals” to ensure that residents of the island “are not left in the shadows.”
“If the regime thinks it can stay connected while the rest of the people are silenced, brutalized and beaten, it is wrong. The next time the Cuban people need to protest, document injustice, send videos, connect with each other, as it began July 11, 2021or share any message with the rest of the international community, will be able to do so clearly and strongly,” Salazar added, according to the website CubaNet.
Delta Chat presents itself as a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. According to its developers, “it feels like WhatsApp or Telegram”, but it can also be considered “like an email app”.
“You can register anonymously on a variety of servers chatmail interoperable, which are minimal email servers optimized for fast and secure operations. Or you can use classic email servers and an existing email account, in which case Delta Chat acts as an email application,” according to the presentation of the app.
However, if the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) were to deprive residents of internet service on the island, Delta Chat would cease to function anyway.
A team of CubaNet He carried out tests from the national territory and was able to verify that the regime had already blocked the app in the country. “I downloaded the app “I was able to connect to the Internet as soon as I heard the news on the first day; at that time it was working fine, but three days later I couldn’t get through. It only connects if you use a VPN (virtual private network) like Psiphon,” said one technology enthusiast on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
CubaNet The company was also able to verify that the application does not work from Cuba if the quick configuration is used. This means that ETECSA blocked the “server chatmail “interoperable” that the app uses by default. There would be the option of configuring a mail server manually.
When trying to manually configure Nauta mail (the email service offered by ETECSA), the app messaging responded with a connection error: “The server cannot be found.”
Similarly, Delta Chat does not allow a person who installed the app Using the default settings, you can communicate with another person who is using a server whose security cannot be verified. This means that the app does not allow a person outside of Cuba and another person inside the Island who is using Nauta email to communicate with each other, unless the contact scans an invitation code that the app itself app provides.
Source: Editorial/With information from CubaNet.