Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have
long considered
Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy.
Now, based on findings
published by the investigative journalism outlet ISt
No, but an app like Signal claiming to care about privacy should at least make an effort to be on the largest open source appstore. The fact they don’t, despite very loud complaints from the community, makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.
Again, I just explained to you that the “largest open source app store” is an insecure mess and isn’t suited for apps like Signal. You don’t need to use Google Play, you can find the APK on GitHub, or the Signal website, together with the certificate fingerprint.
makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.
That doesn’t make sense. F-Droid neither secure nor trustworthy. Signal not being on F-Droid is a good security choice. I recommend reading through this thread.
Signal devs accuse f-droid for not being secure, but do not offer any convincing arguments to back it up. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.
F-Droid works. I have 20+ apps installed on my phone from F-Droid. I am not going to go back to installing apks from website or Google Play just so that I can use Signal.
So almost any Android app in existence?
No, but an app like Signal claiming to care about privacy should at least make an effort to be on the largest open source appstore. The fact they don’t, despite very loud complaints from the community, makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.
Again, I just explained to you that the “largest open source app store” is an insecure mess and isn’t suited for apps like Signal. You don’t need to use Google Play, you can find the APK on GitHub, or the Signal website, together with the certificate fingerprint.
That doesn’t make sense. F-Droid neither secure nor trustworthy. Signal not being on F-Droid is a good security choice. I recommend reading through this thread.
Signal devs accuse f-droid for not being secure, but do not offer any convincing arguments to back it up. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.
F-Droid works. I have 20+ apps installed on my phone from F-Droid. I am not going to go back to installing apks from website or Google Play just so that I can use Signal.
I linked you to a whole page of evidence, explaining the significant security issues in F-Droid before.
Here’s that link again: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
Just read it
I read that article and had a good laugh about it. It is nonsensical. It does raise good points occasionally, but that is drowned by nonsense.