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Update your Signal TLS Proxy.md
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Update your Signal TLS Proxy has an attribution, not endorsement
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title: "Update your Signal TLS Proxy"
title: "Signal TLS Proxy warning"
date: 2022-10-15
tags: ['Proxies', 'Containers', 'Security']
author: Tommy
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- [Drop capabilities](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/24)
- [Use upstream NGINX image](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/23)
- [Add :Z for SELinux](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/22)

Currently, we believe Signal’s TLS Proxies are an incomplete solution to the problems they try to solve. Instead, we recommend using Orbot in conjunction with [Molly](https://molly.im), an alternative Signal client which natively supports SOCKS proxies, to fully tunnel your Signal traffic over the Tor network.

## Attributions (not endorsements)

- [A Warning About Signal Proxies in Iran and Other Oppressive Countries - Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2022/10/15/warning-about-signal-proxies/)