signalapp/Signal-Android on Hacker News

…to Signal proper it has been free software. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server [2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android [3]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS [4]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

comment by cyphar · 2020-02-15 · in Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

Signal has had reproducible builds since March 2016. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr...

comment by greysonp · 2020-02-15 · in Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

Bug report here. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9374

comment by fivedogit · 2020-01-31 · in Profile leak bug in Signal (app)?

…proposing something before it's discovered or announced. I have first hand experience with this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/4171 "It’s true that if you’re writing a messaging app optimized for privacy at any cost,…

comment by maqp · 2020-01-03 · in On Privacy versus Freedom

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android Can't I build and use this if I want? It looks very open, but I haven't tried building my own client.

comment by anon9001 · 2019-12-11 · in Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System

…reproducible builds for Android, here is how to build it and compare against the one on your phone: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr...

comment by syntheticcorp · 2019-11-01 · in NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

…drain to the point I uninstalled Signal. I don't seem to be the only one with this issue [1]. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6898

comment by est31 · 2019-10-25 · in Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations

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Signal Android bug: users can still share media with a group they left

story by cataflam · 2019-10-21 · 1 comment

…a discussion over here [0] on this question. Someone rightly points out Stallman's Freedom 2 . [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/282#issue...

comment by MaxBarraclough · 2019-07-20 · in Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid

…app source code. [2] At least I could not find any; tests on `master` did not even compile; see https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7458#issu...

comment by nh2 · 2019-06-30 · in SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

…though than you can download just the APK from their website[2] and it supports auto-updating. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 [2]: https://signal.org/android/apk/

comment by cyphar · 2019-05-12 · in Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden

…case of Google's ever-expanding grasp over "interesting" (read: competing) Android apps. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

comment by franky47 · 2019-03-14 · in Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

…was a deal breaker for me and I removed Signal after testing it for a while on my smartphone. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6732

comment by est31 · 2019-03-08 · in The perils of federated protocols (2016)

Signal doesn't support vcard which makes it a non-starter for many people [0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6520#issu... [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6520#issu...

comment by tlynchpin · 2019-02-21 · in COI – Chat Over IMAP

…is set up already. There's a tool called apkdiff to compare everything except the signatures. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/Reproducibl... is a thorough recipe, but I didn't actually do all of that. I had the right build…

comment by Arnt · 2018-12-19 · in On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors

…They don't have them in their repo because they just close the ones that are open too long: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7598 Granted, a lot of these are probably outdated. However, given that there are literally…

comment by pwnna · 2018-10-30 · in Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal

…my message type from encrypted to unencrypted every time. See report/references here[0]. [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8181

comment by fiter · 2018-10-16 · in Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features

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Signal released APK, instead of going to F-Droid (2017)

story by fghtr · 2018-09-10 · 0 comments

…but it is definitely not proprietary. I also concur with the Matrix.org recommendation. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

comment by cyphar · 2018-09-10 · in Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

…if anyone want to give a hand... https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/9ekawn/moxie_drop_t... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7638

comment by gustavmarwin · 2018-09-10 · in How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system

…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

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Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com

story by hapnin · 2018-04-18 · 44 comments

…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

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Signal down worldwide for 2hrs

story by porjo · 2018-03-05 · 1 comment

…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]

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Signal on Android does not have a Google apps dependency anymore (2017)

story by herogreen · 2018-01-10 · 1 comment

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

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Messages not sending – Issue #6402 – WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

story by mathrawka · 2017-03-17 · 0 comments

…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

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Signal can now be used without Google Play Services

story by marco1 · 2017-02-20 · 164 comments