Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down
by palata on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:09AM
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They say they do, but you have to trust them. You don't have to trust Signal, you can audit the sources (or trust some third party to do it for you).
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How do you know the source code you’re looking at is for the same program you downloaded from the App Store? Does apple publish a checksum of software you’re installing?
This is a failure of Apple and their walled garden, not of Signal. If this is a concern to you, you either need to jailbreak or switch to a more free as in freedom platform.
Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down
by gaius_baltar on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:04PM
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> Does apple publish a checksum of software you’re installing?
Reproducible builds: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...
Honestly, if it really mattered a lot to me (i.e. to my own security), I would compile Signal from source and install it on my device. Which I could not do with WhatsApp.