News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group. Parent comment

Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by Xenograph on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:57PM (#20664190)
> Not open source, only partly, just like Telegram.

Signal is completely open source. I'm not sure why you think it's only partly open source.

Quoting Wikipedia[1]:

> All Signal software are free and open-source. The clients are published under the GPLv3 license, while the server code is published under the AGPLv3 license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by zzzcpan on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:06PM (#20664236)
It's not even on f-droid. You install the binary they control and connect to the servers they run, it's literally a proprietary app, just like Telegram.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by flixic on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:22PM (#20664322)
App being open-source means you can compile and build it yourself.

They've also gone to extreme lengths to prove that the software running on their servers has not been tampered with: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/#trust-but...

I think your doubts create very unreasonable expectations for Signal.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by techntoke on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:17PM (#20665376)
Telegram can be built locally too, and there are independent apps for it, and they have taken efforts within the security community to prove that it is secure.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by doomrobo on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:12AM (#20666188)
Can you build and run the server locally?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by newscracker on Sunday August 11, 2019 @02:58AM (#20666773)
You may be able to run Signal server from your build, but you won't be able to talk to users on Signal.org. Signal's official position is that it will never federate with others. So I don't understand how building and running a server locally is a step up in any way.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting... by jjeaff on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:40PM (#20664403)
You can run your own signal server and compile the app to point to your own server instead of theirs.

It doesn't get much more open source than that.

[ Parent | on HN ]