HAVANA, Cuba. – Last Thursday, Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar called on Cubans living on the island to download and use the Delta Chat messaging app to maintain communication even when the Havana regime restricts internet access, especially during mass protests.
According to the congresswoman, Delta Chat 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 everyone else is 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 they began on July 11, 2021, or share any message with the rest of the international community, they will be able to do so loudly and clearly,” Salazar added.
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 as soon as I heard the news on the first day; at that time it worked fine, but three days later I couldn’t get through. It only connects if you use a VPN [red privada virtual] 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.”
More promising than Delta Chat appear to be other solutions related to the Starlink Direct-to-Cell service, which allows users to connect directly to satellites without having to go through a terrestrial tower. However, for its successful use on the Island, a number of factors would need to align.
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2024-07-17 17:23:38
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