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@kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @shipwreckt @Mer__edith open source code, but no way of proving that that's the same code that's running on your iPhone. If you installed signal from the apple store or the Google play store there is no way to know it's not sending every message to the NSA or something. You also can't be sure the server is running the published source. The problem I have with signal is that all of these wonderful claims are completely unverifiable, and that smells like honey trap.
@bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @Mer__edith
If you distrust it then compile it from source code then. There is a fdroid one you can get with the guardian project too.
Also the signal company gets asked by the government to give them information but signal can't actually do it because they cannot decrypt your messages. There is also the fact that the company makes barley any net profit from what I can see.
But if you don't wanna use signal its a free world
@bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @shipwreckt @Mer__edith Also, the release .apk app contains not only published open source code, but also proprietary (non-free) binary blobs linked with it, and Signal foundation (or was it just Moxie?) was never OK with people removing those non-free blobs and connecting to their servers (which is why #fdroid FOSS app store could never publish #signal, which is a shame and a reason why many FOSS won't run it. Also, why no #federation ?)