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A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

110 mentions on Hacker News by 91 people: 15 stories, 95 comments · first 2014-07-21 · latest 2025-11-29

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  1. …in the first place. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%... [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/development...
  2. …grrowl copied and repasted the truncated display text of the link. The full link is 2 comments up: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/9d41b8616...
  3. > The Signal devs thought $.html() does some kind of escaping: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/9d41b8616... . (this commit made something that was easy to exploit into something that was even easier to exploit). This is…
  4. This doesn't seem to be true, here's the v1.10.0 code: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/f6eb745632c... They do seem to be using react, and using dangerouslySetInnerHTML. Now that said, I haven't confirmed that this is the…
  5. …know if this is exploitable, but they are using many different methods to escape HTML content: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/d1f7f5ee8c1... Then here it's a different function: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/…
  6. …it and run the resulting binary. The Signal devs thought $.html() does some kind of escaping: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/9d41b8616... (this commit made something that was easy to exploit into something that was even…
  7. …not to eager to trust people writing commit messages like this and then OK that during peer review: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/9d41b8616... > Remove escaping from `linkText` > We leverage jQuery’s HTML escaping in…
    comment by rndgermandude · 2018-05-16 · in Signal-desktop HTML tag injection advisory
  8. …constructing raw SQL requests where parameterized queries suffice. Thankfully, it was just fixed: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/4e5c8965f...
    comment by ycmbntrthrwaway · 2018-05-16 · in Signal-desktop HTML tag injection advisory
  9. Electron is unsafe because it's based on outdated versions of Chromium: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
  10. Signal desktop app is based on the insecure Electron runtime. See my report here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
  11. It has a desktop app for MacOS, Linux and Windows. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop
    comment by sashimy · 2018-04-09 · in Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
  12. …stays visible in task list. No thank you, but I refuse to use electron-based "native" apps. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1119
    comment by perakojotgenije · 2018-03-23 · in Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
  13. …- wanna help us test proxy and system tray support? Tray support behind command-line argument: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/1676 Proxy support behind command-line argument: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pul…
    comment by scottnonnenberg · 2018-02-22 · in Signal Foundation
  14. …[2]: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/encrypted-back... [3]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/522 [4]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/7380 [5]: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting
    comment by wfn · 2018-02-21 · in Signal Foundation
  15. No proxy support, so I can't use it in my corporate environment. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1632 Also a bit annoying that it can't be run in the background, at least on Windows.…
    comment by andyjh · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  16. Link to lower the barrier: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/new
    comment by Vinnl · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  17. submitted issue for this: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
    comment by jsnar · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  18. Does it still store all data unencrypted on the disk? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1017
    comment by dbrgn · 2017-11-01 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  19. …probably be enabled in a production build with little modifications. This might get you started: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/blob/d1f7f5...
    comment by mfwoods · 2017-10-31 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  20. Why no web app? Moxie closed https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/723 without giving any reasoning. Can someone link me to a blog post that explains why Signal is refusing to release a web version? I cannot run another…
    comment by nikisweeting · 2017-10-31 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  21. …user base. Give us a github repo and we can build it ourself. Let me see if I can find one. Edit: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
    comment by noja · 2017-10-31 · in Standalone Signal Desktop
  22. …[1], but you are correct in that they currently do not support calls on their desktop client. [1]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
    comment by fkistner · 2017-07-03 · in New Skype Update Is Horrible
  23. …API that powers Chrome extensions, Open Whisper Systems refuses to support Firefox, see https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/pull/592#is... .
    comment by Aaronn · 2017-05-27 · in Chrome Won
  24. …he's missing is about web apps. Whisper Systems is very clear that they're not doing a web version: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/723 If they did, they would be the one holding the keys, not the user. The proposed…
  25. The Signal desktop-app stores all messages unencrypted on the filesystem: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1017
    comment by dbrgn · 2017-01-12 · in Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
  26. Wish this issue hadn't been closed. Signal for Firefox is a big missing feature: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/415
  27. …success with syncing but you may want to post your logs in Github or thumbs up if you are dup of https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/909
  28. …their app will supposedly run on any OS that Chrome runs. I'm sure that was the intention. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/commits/mas... [2] https://whispersystems.org/#team [3] https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/…
  29. Signal Desktop has a standalone registration UI that works perfectly fine in the source ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop ), but this hidden feature has been entirely removed from this version. Here is a convoluted process…
  30. Watch for this issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/454
  31. There's at least some work being done for firefox support: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/pull/574 .
  32. No, not /require/. Here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop (link from the webpage). Go get bower and npm and build it yourself. It'll be a zipfile.
    comment by lallysingh · 2015-12-03 · in Signal Desktop
  33. …Signal from a desktop, and am hoping that it gets an actual release date in the next year or so. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
    comment by escobar · 2015-12-02 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
  34. A browser extension for Chrome/Chromium is being worked on! You can track it at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
  35. Hmm, what I was thinking of as the in-progress desktop client is just a Chrome extension: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser . I hope there's more to come. :\
    comment by Perceptes · 2015-10-30 · in Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily
  36. …back in on the repo and it looks like a new CONTRIBUTING doc has been added, which is great: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/blob/ma... This is the type of stuff I was looking for. I'm happy to see WhisperSystems…
    comment by dmix · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform
  37. You can help with that if you want: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
    comment by e12e · 2015-05-13 · in Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
  38. Re #2: TextSecure has a web/chrome extension version in development: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
  39. Well they're working on a solution here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
    comment by explorigin · 2015-04-20 · in Why we don't sell ads – WhatsApp Blog
  40. …It's still under development, but if you're curious you can check out install instructions here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/blob/ma...
  41. That's currently in the works as a browser extension: https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure-browser You can keep track of its progress there :).
  42. For desktop- https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
  43. …not just p/t help. Also they have a browser extension that could use some help from front-end devs: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser It is still pretty early but the project has Bithub as well. From my understanding,…
  44. …https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure [5] https://github.com/whispersystems/signal-ios [6] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/ [7] http://bithub.whispersystems.org/ [8] https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/ [9]…
  45. WhisperSystems are working on a web based TextSecure https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser