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…party code. Those are all security concerns too. It was posted elsewhere but here's Moxie's take: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127#issue...

comment by leshow · 2018-08-09 · in I don't trust Signal

He has previously explained his reasoning: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127#issue...

comment by halestock · 2018-08-09 · in I don't trust Signal

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7869

comment by mayneack · 2018-05-31 · in Ask HN: Is Signal down?

you can use signal without any google services though, for more than a year now even. related commit: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/166973132... pretty difficult to find the raw apk though:…

comment by zeratax · 2018-04-26 · in Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

…to Telegram, which is closed source so we can't know whether they have similar problems. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7598

comment by nh2 · 2018-04-17 · in Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

…of the signal gateway so I guess it's maybe a DDOS? First people are asking for a service page https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7461 Anyway it's up again. Hopefully there will be a writeup

comment by BlackLotus89 · 2018-03-05 · in Signal is down since ~1 hour

Came here to post https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7460 https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/824cci/signal_down/ You were faster than me. This is a real bummer for me since I use Signal daily. First thought was that…

comment by BlackLotus89 · 2018-03-05 · in Signal is down since ~1 hour

…time and energy to help with this, but so far have only be able to grovel and complain). :) [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/f36b296e2... [2]: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/encrypted-back... [3]:…

comment by wfn · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

Some more detail: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/282

comment by mattl · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

…by F-Droid? [1] Scroll down for a big graph https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/Reproducibl...

comment by Ao7bei3s · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

Done https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6027#issu...

comment by OoTheNigerian · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

Report here please: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6027

comment by ycmbntrthrwaway · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127#issue... (2013) src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672199 (2016) alternative: https://signal.org/android/apk (2017)

comment by book_mentioned · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation

…Or Signal simply taking apart Android system structs with JNI, to get a file descriptor’s owner https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/jni/... There’s lots of suboptimal code in messaging apps. All of them.

comment by kuschku · 2018-02-07 · in Telegram Login for Websites

I switched back to Lineage with open gapps but later I saw this https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/6895...

comment by mcny · 2018-01-15 · in iOS 11 Security [pdf]

This is just wrong, pls stop spreading misinformation. The gcm dependency was removed 10 months ago: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/1669... You can get the apk outside of gplay on their website:…

comment by zeratax · 2017-12-12 · in Telegram Isn't for Sale

…under the name Signal, so that it can connect to his servers. Read the Signal-Android issues https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/53 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127…

comment by kuschku · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop

work in progress, non-trivial on phone at least: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1232...

comment by unhammer · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop

…and only decrypts them when the app is "open". See http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/signal/ and See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1232...

comment by unhammer · 2017-09-27 · in Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal

Yes. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master...

comment by ktta · 2017-09-19 · in Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov

…it as "not meaningfully privacy-preserving" (probably not his exact words), IIRC. Edit: Here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4726

comment by StavrosK · 2017-08-31 · in ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Contact Data

…to use the same key. It will happily accept a signature from _any_ key for new releases. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/ae9303...

comment by veeti · 2017-08-02 · in Malicious crossenv package on npm

…the owner of every merged pull request is paid 2% of our total balance at the time of the merge https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/BitHub...

comment by j_s · 2017-05-11 · in A plan for open source software maintainers

…flow to protect against someone else spoofing your phone number and pretending to be you. See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1181

comment by espeed · 2017-03-11 · in What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works

…on F-Droid; you can read Moxie's thoughts on the subject in these comments (and in other places): https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#...

comment by Cyphase · 2017-02-20 · in Signal can now be used without Google Play Services

…with your device details? iOS: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/new Android: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/new

comment by ikawe · 2017-02-15 · in Video calls for Signal now in public beta

…this which worked for me. It's definitely not for non-tech people but in a pinch it can be done. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577... https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577...

comment by tkcne · 2017-02-15 · in Video calls for Signal now in public beta

…insecure because it doesn't auto-update. Here's his logic for why Signal shouldn't be in F-Droid: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281 I disagree with him about a few things in this space, but if you know anything…

comment by aftbit · 2017-02-11 · in Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal

…making decisions, but that the OS vendors negotiate with the cell providers for longer timeouts: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000... "The advantage GCM has is that Google has made agreements with mobile carriers…

comment by geofft · 2017-01-31 · in Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS

Yes, you absolutely can. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master...

comment by tw04 · 2017-01-31 · in Political World Embraces Encrypted-Messaging App Signal Amid Fears of Hacking

…do not want to make a google play services free version Except they're working on it right now: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962

comment by majewsky · 2017-01-19 · in About backdoors in crypto messengers

…2? (otherwise, whats the point?) [1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962 edit: formatting, forward secrecy not e2e

comment by dbalan · 2017-01-19 · in About backdoors in crypto messengers

See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... for an explanation by moxie.

comment by halestock · 2017-01-14 · in There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'

…by 8bitkid, and we're just waiting for it to be merged into Signal. Discussion on this here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962

comment by lucideer · 2017-01-14 · in There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'

…mentioning that people are currently working on removing the Google services dependency in Signal: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962

comment by speakr · 2017-01-13 · in WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

…functionality, as RedPhone is also proprietary. The source code for the Redphone client is here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master... The source code the redphone-audio library is here:…

comment by temprature · 2016-12-23 · in Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future

…I might still be misunderstanding, but I think they have an issue open for this already: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/3983

comment by Forbo · 2016-12-22 · in Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future

A very recent commit[0] added +968 as well, but that was made after this update was tagged. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/7488...

comment by temprature · 2016-12-21 · in Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android

Moxie just committed circumvention support earlier today. Here's the commit: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/5417...

comment by aorth · 2016-12-21 · in Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

…can be found on Google I already tried it Not on Google maybe, but still the page that you want: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/new

comment by majewsky · 2016-12-20 · in Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

…using SMS. SMS is federated and very difficult to block without disrupting essential services. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/2818 Of course going the route of using centralized services allows later…

comment by fgrte · 2016-12-20 · in Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

…if you would pardon the pun? :-) But I tell you what really got in my tits, it was this message: ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/53#i... ) "Please do not install software from F-Droid. It is an unverified build,…

comment by at612 · 2016-12-09 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

…else, and it's "malware", as the guy had the nerve to call F-Droid in that bug report (here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/53 ). That sort of bad faith, coming from a known liar (see my other reply) is what I…

comment by at612 · 2016-12-09 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

…of addressing the issue like a professional, he goes on a complete tangent rubbishing F-Droid ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/53 ) and then making rather poor excuses as to why you should get your application from…

comment by at612 · 2016-12-09 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

> it is not open source Huh? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android I'd even argue it's free software - the team has managed to create some confusion about distributing modified binaries - with regards to using the servers Signal…

comment by e12e · 2016-12-09 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

…/articles/146347/i-os-10-s-invisible-ink-feat... ), which Moxie has specifically refused to support ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/5103 ), then you can't just fork the client, implement it yourself, and use the…

comment by ekidd · 2016-12-08 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

…via Google, and Signal is distributed under the GPLv3, which grants rights to fork and modify it: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by ekidd · 2016-12-08 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by nickik · 2016-12-08 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by veeti · 2016-12-08 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

I think as long as they are GPL, you can use the infrastructure. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282

comment by bluesign · 2016-12-08 · in Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal