Comment on How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
fubo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly ‘secure’ messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad,” Durov wrote on his own Telegram channel.
In fact, the folks running Signal — notably Moxie Marlinspike and Meredith Whittaker — have a long history of effective security & privacy activism. Whittaker was one of the organizers of the Google Walkouts, one of the more effective pieces of tech worker activism in recent history. And Moxie has bumped heads with the US intelligence community more than once, and famously with the Saudis too.
istanbullu@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Signal’s hostility to 3rd party clients, and their refusal to publish on F-Droid is a massive red flag. I will not be using until they start following common sense.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why will they not use F-Droid?
stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They won’t directly support it because in their view the Google Play process is a more secure way of verifying they supplied the binaries than is possible of f-droid. If reproducible builds were possible maybe there could be some mechanism to verify a given binary is built from a given commit of the source tree.
pop@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Doesn’t Google play store also modify and build the binary themselves to “generate and deliver APKs that are optimized for each device configuration, providing users with more efficient apps”?
support.google.com/googleplay/…/9859152#apk