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Re:Signal Foundation by kuschku on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:44PM (#16433251)
The funny part is that Signal and F-Droid both have their own reproducible build system, but they’re incompatible (part of that is that Signal requires proprietary code in its binary)
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Re:Signal Foundation by kbart on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:13AM (#16436053)
Can you elaborate more on this? What is the proprietary code used by Signal?
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Re:Signal Foundation by kuschku on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:09AM (#16436547)
They link several proprietary libraries into their APK, including GCM (which has its own internal analytics package)
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