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minus-square@doodledup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•1 month agoThey don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub. Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.
minus-square@woelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month ago You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub. Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt. Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? Probably Russians who used Signal before.
minus-square@doodledup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoThe F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.
minus-square@woelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month ago The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub. F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version.
minus-square@Nonononoki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoIt’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it.
They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.
Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.
Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.
Probably Russians who used Signal before.
The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.
F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version.
It’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it.