π€« A story 
shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly βsecureβ messaging 
app, are activists used by the US state 
department for regime change abroad π₯·
https://x.com/jack/status/1787895769183268948
https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem
π₯Έ The US government spent $3M to build 
Signal's encryption, and today 
the exact same encryption is implemented in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google 
Messages and even Skype. It looks almost as if big tech in the US is not allowed to build 
its own encryption protocols that would 
be independent of government interference πβπ¦Ί
π΅οΈββοΈ An alarming number of important people I've spoken to remarked that their βprivateβ Signal messages had been exploited against them in US courts or media. But whenever somebody raises doubt 
about their encryption, Signal's typical response is βwe are open source 
so anyone can verify that everything is all rightβ. That, however, is a trick 
π€‘
π΅οΈββοΈ Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn't allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users' iPhones. Signal refused to add reproducible builds for iOS, closing a GitHub request from the community. And WhatsApp doesn't even publish the code of its apps, so all their talk about βprivacyβ is an even more obvious 
circus 
trickπ€
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641
π‘ Telegram is the only massively popular messaging service 
that allows everyone 
to make sure that all of its apps indeed use the same open source code that is published on Github. For the past ten years, Telegram Secret 
Chats have remained the only popular method of communication that is verifiably private πͺ
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the point about reproducible builds is a valid though.
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It's neat that there is a convention for demonstrating the fact and hilarious that any security focused app wouldn't do so
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God i love seeing how fricking r-slurred some of you are when you talk about things which you have no possibility of understanding.
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Read the issue. Apple makes it basically impossible because they change a bunch of random shit from the submitted app to the one you actually download. Notably, they add their own drm, which requires a jailbroken device to reverse.
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And yet telegram finds a way, or signal has an excuse for android as well, or the entire article is bullshit and I completely wasted my time
I know which one I believe
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