Comment on WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly

• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a grain of truth in the claim: We don’t know for sure if the original open source version is actually running on the server.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that true of all server side FOSS?

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. We just have to trust them.

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      • Laborer3652@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Man Signal would be the perfect messenger if it was defederated.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve said that they release the source code after it’s running in production:

    sorry the source for one of our services was so far behind. We often don’t push source until we release things, and there were a few overlapping releases that happened in that period which made it awkward to push at any moment and put us behind. Additionally, we’ve seen a large increase in spam, and a reluctance to immediately publish the exact anti-spam measures we were responding with to a place where spammers could immediately see them combined with the above to cause this extreme delay.

    github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#…

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• einkorn@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In that case: They started publishing code AGAIN.

  The server soft has been available, then not, and apparently now again.

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