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…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

fwiw, https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577... lists a workaround. Not usable for mere mortals unfortunately :(

comment by unhammer · 2016-11-18 · in Why is it so hard to back up and restore Signal? Why do you lose your keypair?

That sounds like a really good technical discussion to have with the OWS team. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues

comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-11-08 · in A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol

I know the redphone is library is just a binary blob in the github repository: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master/libs/armeabi But I always thought that .so was just a compiled version of this C++ source, which in…

comment by rstuart4133 · 2016-11-06 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

…Java, so the type of memory corruption vulnerabilities you're thinking about are not a possibility: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master...

comment by moxie · 2016-11-06 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master...

comment by theGimp · 2016-11-05 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

See Moxie's explanation here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

comment by bradyo · 2016-11-03 · in MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

See Moxie's explanation here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... The whole thread is a good read too haha

comment by bradyo · 2016-11-03 · in MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

…does have more security than WhatsApp because I trust OWS more than I trust WhatsApp/Facebook. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by heartsucker · 2016-11-02 · in Signal and Giphy

…displayed isn't even the right thing to care about, since they're using SHA1 for the hash AFAICT: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/3.0.0/...

comment by lenish · 2016-10-12 · in Disappearing messages for Signal

…that still won't help people that are trying to build a Google-free experience on Google's platform https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 , since we still don't have the things we need…

comment by uph · 2016-10-11 · in Disappearing messages for Signal

…we can at least define a limit to what information can be stored that is not end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by jedahan · 2016-10-04 · in Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

Since their client apps are OSS you can check yourself: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by 5ersi · 2016-10-04 · in Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

…discontinued. I don't know what the heck is going on with this, but yeah, it's not pretty. [0]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1106 [1]: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... There's also…

comment by Sylos · 2016-08-22 · in Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat

…in Signal, a FOSS messaging app: https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/ Source is here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by eosrei · 2016-06-26 · in Supreme Court to hear petition seeking ban on WhatsApp

…a simple CLI would do. If those 2 things were fixed, it'd be an awesome messaging platform. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000 [2] https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/

comment by nextos · 2016-06-26 · in How Signal Beats WhatsApp

…conversations like this one, and grow to understand something new about computer security. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#... [2]…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…up to him. He doesn't like how F-Droid uses centralized signing keys which are stored online: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

comment by neerdowell · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…yanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-end-of-life ), that he sabotages non-Google-controlled repositories ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 ) of his so called open software client. I don't care that much because for…

comment by mcepl · 2016-05-11 · in Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

…be properly informed on this issue. You're not. Here's an okay starting point into the discussion: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282 Another thing to remember is that (IIRC) -for approximately forever- Red Hat…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…Whisper Systems nor are you likely to be providing the same security guarantees that they are. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#... [2]…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…the communications of the official clients are sent to some "official" Signal Amazon servers (see https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master... ). Doing end to end encryption is nice, but I really think that having a…

comment by edhelas · 2016-04-08 · in WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users

…possible an open source WhatsApp client could as well. [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by danjoc · 2016-04-06 · in WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete

…stops you from building the Docker image yourself using the Dockerfile provided in the repo. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master...

comment by haffenloher · 2016-04-01 · in Reproducible Signal builds for Android

…or registration, and is metadata-safe, but the limited feature set leaves a bit to be desired. [0]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/5009

comment by brbsix · 2016-02-29 · in Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone (2014)

I encourage you to do the same: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 Security should be available to all, not just those with the environment and know-how to compile apps from source. Doubly so on iOS where you have…

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2016-02-26 · in Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal