Re:EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
by rawfan on Monday February 24, 2020 @07:25AM
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I compiled Signal for iOS and monitored the sent data through a proxy. Both behave identical. There could be a hidden switch in the distributed binaries that triggers other behavior, but I really doubt it. For Android, there are reproducible builds so you can actually check the code is the same. For iOS reproducible builds are harder but should still be possible.
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Re:EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
by squiggleblaz on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:09AM
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Can I verify that the build installed on my Android phone[] is identical to the one that I compiled? For instance, if I mount the device in Linux I can only see /mnt/sdcard, not /, so I can't copy the binaries off.
[] i.e. the build installed on my phone, not the build available no Google's server to download.