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A private messenger for Android.

372 mentions on Hacker News by 280 people: 29 stories, 343 comments · first 2011-12-21 · latest 2026-10-12

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    Unable to send non-encrypted SMS to previous TextSecure user
    story by malka · 2016-01-22 · 0 comments
  2. …any security-critical software. [0] https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/ [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/f666... [2] [2] And the initial import date on the GH repo jives with the date on the…
    comment by simoncion · 2016-01-22 · in WhisperPush – End of Life
  3. …in charge of design, implementation, and packaging. This guy doesn't seem to be such a person. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282#... [2]…
    comment by simoncion · 2016-01-21 · in WhisperPush – End of Life
  4. …carefully doing excellent work with Signal. Software like this is a great benefit to society. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281…
    comment by simoncion · 2016-01-20 · in WhisperPush – End of Life
  5. …key and it allows you to send messages to offline contacts. 1: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ 2: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Protoc... 3: http://conversations.im/omemo/
    comment by Flowdalic · 2016-01-07 · in OX (OpenPGP for XMPP): A New OpenPGP XEP
  6. …yourself. They even provide instructions. So you could avoid gapps for that one with a bit of work. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to...
    comment by ickwabe · 2016-01-06 · in Should (and could) you ditch Apple, Google and Microsoft?
  7. Me too, I submitted it to them and Moxie closed the issue without much elaboration: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4726
    comment by StavrosK · 2015-12-01 · in Show HN: Discover a user's contacts without ever knowing their contacts
  8. These are the client (GPLv3) and server (AGPLv3) repositories: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
    comment by haffenloher · 2015-11-03 · in Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
  9. >Why isn't it a walled garden then? Because the client and server are both OSS? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
    comment by lsaferite · 2015-11-03 · in Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
  10. …and then click through a warning about playing media insecurely before stagefright got involved." https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959070
    comment by jsingleton · 2015-07-28 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
  11. See also: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3818
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-07-28 · in TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability
  12. …a way to block numbers in TextSecure or I would use it ... Oh they implemented it last month :D https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/222
    comment by emmab · 2015-07-28 · in TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability
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    TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability
    story by mfincham · 2015-07-28 · 24 comments
  14. …default SMS handler should protect you from drive-by infection through malicious MMS payloads. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
    comment by simoncion · 2015-07-28 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
  15. …that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
    comment by simoncion · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
  16. …that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
    comment by simoncion · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
  17. …you tell it to open it (which will popup a warning that things are leaving TS's sandbox). 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
    comment by aidenn0 · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
  18. …you're referring to this [0]? I think it's a bit more nuanced than you're letting on here. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by losvedir · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  19. …also uses TextSecure it's - well - secure (and free) and you don't have to think about it. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/commits/master
    comment by rhblake · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  20. From https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/53 Moxie: "I'd like to avoid distributing APKs outside of the Play Store" Why give a single entity the power to push a malicious update anytime?
    comment by btczeus · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  21. This code is closed? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
    comment by nly · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  22. For those interested in the rationale: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127#issu...
    comment by theGimp · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  23. …websocket fork is somewhat dead [6]. 0: https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/ 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127 3: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1000 4:…
    comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform
  24. …And still no way to register without a phone, which would be amazing for this kind of project: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1085 I think Telegram is succeeding in what TextSecure is failing: attracting a widespread…
    comment by gioi · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform
  25. …isn't crazy in-depth, but it's a really neat protocol that offers forwards and future security. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2
    comment by jszymborski · 2015-04-25 · in Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
  26. …a user your contacts and opening the app), there's only one reason you would be there. [3] See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/commit/40eca5e0...
    comment by pR0Ps · 2015-04-09 · in SMSSecure – SMS Encryption for Android
  27. Relevant pull request: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/pull/2817
    comment by pR0Ps · 2015-04-07 · in SMSSecure – SMS Encryption for Android
  28. …an APK for TextSecure for users who don't use Google Play (like users with CyanogenMod). - https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127 - http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/1... Hopefully that option will…
    comment by jackbravo · 2015-03-06 · in Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS
  29. …from F-droid. EDIT: not only is textsecure not on f-droid, but f-droid itself is woefully insecure: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by anonbanker · 2015-03-03 · in Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
  30. …like there is ongoing development for websockets instead of (Google-) Push messages. [1][2] 0: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/560 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1000 2:…
    comment by _jomo · 2015-03-03 · in Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
  31. …of binaries). There is a very interesting discussion about this on the TextSecure issue queue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by jackbravo · 2015-03-02 · in Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
  32. Moxie's stance on non-Play releases is not as extreme as you suggest: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by aaron_m04 · 2015-02-26 · in GPG and Me
  33. …devices. Clearly the latter is way easier if you're willing to store the history on the server. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1737 also on HN somewhere
    comment by morsch · 2014-11-18 · in Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
  34. …re/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms [3] https://whispersystems.org/blog/winter-of-code/ [4] https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure [5] https://github.com/whispersystems/signal-ios [6] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSe…
    comment by charlieok · 2014-11-18 · in Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
  35. …conventionally. You don't need to rely on the assertions of the authors; you can find the source at https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure .
    comment by JoshTriplett · 2014-11-02 · in How secure is TextSecure?
  36. …better with the F-Droid community[1], but hopefully that will eventually get sorted out :) [1]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/281
    comment by patcon · 2014-07-22 · in Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
  37. …say compile and patch yourself, or use the Play Store (for the faint of heart). One reference here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/281#issu... UPDATE: Maybe I missed something entirely as you mentioned your obvious…
    comment by 616c · 2014-07-21 · in Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
  38. …model which is completely broken" [1]). He also opposes TextSecure being on f-droid, etc. [1]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by glogla · 2014-06-27 · in Android without the mothership
  39. seems that they are trying to replace Google's push API with a websocket-based solution. See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1106
    comment by solstice · 2014-06-27 · in Android without the mothership
  40. Or use TextSecure and RedPhone: https://whispersystems.org/ ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/ )
    comment by nodata · 2014-05-05 · in John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
  41. …some value to the product. [0] http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Development/PluginIdeas [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues?labels=f... [2] http://bithub.com/earnpoints
    comment by garrettgrimsley · 2014-05-02 · in What Programming is Like
  42. …point us to one?" You could not have reviewed all open and closed bugs in 8 minutes ;) Issue 1073: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1073 Another one: Just sent an encrypted photo to someone? The photo is stored…
    comment by illumen · 2014-04-03 · in CryptoCat iOS Application Penetration Test [pdf]
  43. …unlike Telegram authors, TextSecure's author is very good with crypto. [1]: it's a long read: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
    comment by glogla · 2014-04-02 · in Breaking Half of the Telegram Contest
  44. …ability to withstand analysis by state-level actors. You're better off using GPG and email. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Using-Text...
    comment by jmillikin · 2014-03-21 · in About that time Google spied on my Gmail
  45. Or you could just implement their protocol and work with any code you want to. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2
    comment by peterwwillis · 2014-02-25 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  46. …does use public key cryptography. It performs the key exchange silently, but it still performs it. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2 https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
    comment by garrettgrimsley · 2014-02-25 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  47. You can disable the SMS push. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/639
    comment by garrettgrimsley · 2014-02-25 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  48. …another app to act as your default SMS app. There is actually an issue on github open about this: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/639
    comment by ThatGeoGuy · 2014-02-25 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  49. He meant TextSecure's issue 53. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/53 You'll find a more interesting discussion about the reasons for not distributing TextSecure through alternate repositories on issue 127 though.…
    comment by npizzolato · 2014-02-25 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  50. …people and the community are already discussing this issue, at least for the released Android app: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127 For iOS I believe that decrypting the binary and doing an objdump, then comparing…
    comment by bri3d · 2014-02-24 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS