• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Especially with Signal being open source. What stops the official Signal company from advertising another fork?

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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          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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          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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        3 months ago

        That’d be irrelevant, because as long as only the clients hold the keys (which we can verify, as those are not only open source but also are under our control, meaning we can check that the upstream open source version is installed and no private keys are being exchanged) there’s no way anyone can read the messages, except the owner of the private key.

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          3 months ago

          Messages - yes, but there is also metadata. When ALL communication goes through the same servers, it becomes kind of a problem.