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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoThey don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub. Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted. arrow-up116arrow-down14file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month ago You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub. Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt. Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? Probably Russians who used Signal before. arrow-up14arrow-down14file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoThe F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub. arrow-up110arrow-down13file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoIt’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it. arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month ago The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub. F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version. arrow-up12arrow-down12file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.
Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.
Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.
Probably Russians who used Signal before.
The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.
It’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it.
F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version.