Does it really matter who made it if you can see the source code? You don’t have to trust them.
Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How do we know signal isn’t also run by a techbro who just wants our data?
aidan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s kind of a core tenet of libre/open software, innit? Independently verifiable software that you can change at your pleasure.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Can you though? Can I build the apk myself and use their services?
ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yes, you can use their exact build environment straight from GitHub. You can also use Molly.im which is another app that i think is a fork? Im still investigating it.
hackitfast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think that the founders are bad people. If you look at their history of work, they have done enormous amounts of work in the computer security sector. The founder, however, did run a cloud based WPA cracking service.
Meredith Whitaker, who is the president, used to work at Google doing research for “issues related to net neutrality measurement, privacy, security, and the social consequences of artificial intelligence”.
In 2018 she then staged walkouts at Google over concerns of sexual misconduct and citizen surveillance.
The people on Signal’s board seem to be trustworthy people with a pretty airtight background. You have to worry more about the mobile operating system compromising you than do you about Signal.