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Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down by jliptzin on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:28AM (#33330192)
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?
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Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down by skeaker on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:59PM (#33334050)
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.
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Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down by gaius_baltar on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:04PM (#33334106)
> Does apple publish a checksum of software you’re installing?

Reproducible builds: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

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Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down by palata on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:17AM (#33342105)
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.
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Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down by jliptzin on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:17PM (#33345902)
True
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