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Re:How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API by skinkestek on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:21PM (#29752150)
> and the builds of the clients that are published to the app stores could be anything.

Isn't Telegram one of very few that provides verifiable builds, (including on iOS if you root it)?

I might be wrong but I think not.

Edit, see : https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds

So it seems even on this point Telegram shines.

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Re:How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API by saagarjha on Friday December 31, 2021 @05:12PM (#29753046)
Telegram doesn’t even post their source code to match their releases on macOS and iOS. Sometimes they’ll do a code dump somewhere around that time, but it’s not a guarantee.
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Re:How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API by skinkestek on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:12AM (#29757105)
In the same boat as Signal there.

WhatsApp doesn't post source code at all.

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