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Re:Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal c... by mmooss on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#49685696)
> Their code is open source but you can't really do anything with that. You can't run your own server on the network, and they've previously stated they don't want third party implementations of clients.

There are third-party forks and clients. Parts of the US government use one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678919

Also, you can audit the code.

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Re:Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal c... by wolvoleo on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:17PM (#49717452)
They've previously said they would ban third party clients: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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Re:Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal c... by mmooss on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:50PM (#49717934)
Interesting, I hadn't seen that; thank you. Though that is dated 10 years ago and they haven't done it yet, or not fully successfully. It might be challenging to identify third party clients, though maybe each app inevitably has a unique fingerprint.
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