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Re:Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy by nicce on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:59PM (#39421317)
For Signal, open source since 2016

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

Unless you espcially meant by ”App Store”, by Apples App store, it is Apple to blame in that case because it is not possible due to the encryption of app binaries.

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Re:Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy by binary132 on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:33AM (#39431660)
I wasn't speaking specifically about Signal nor about a particular storefront. I'm glad Signal has at least a reproducible build on one platform. That doesn't change my main point: "it's open source" is NOT a guarantor of this AT ALL without usable build verification.
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Re:Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy by nicce on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:08PM (#39434841)
That is very true; many incorrectly think that open-source alone brings some privacy guarantees, while it might bring some security ones.
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