LibreSignal
pypush
LibreSignal | pypush | |
---|---|---|
49 | 23 | |
258 | 3,497 | |
0.8% | - | |
0.0 | 8.5 | |
about 7 years ago | 3 months ago | |
C | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
LibreSignal
-
Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
>what does this mean?
Moxie (Signal's founder) has thrown fits in the past over the existence of third-party clients using their servers: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...
-
Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol
0: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37
I push back when anyone recommends Signal because they are fundamentally not an open network.
-
Hosting Signal frontend on a local server (Like Signal desktop but through website)
OWS has historically been hostile to third party implementations outside of their clients. There are multiple unofficial options but the only one I've been looking at is the bridge with matrix, though setting up a matrix server just for this is likely overkill.
-
After High Court Ruling, Telegram Discloses Names/Numbers/IP of Users
I have to say that I find him fascinating too, but there are a few things that raise my suspicion, but of course do not convict him of anything:
The way he is attacking this alternative Signal client and rules out interoperability:
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Signal was a word before he decided to turn it into a brand.
The signal server source code repo was not updated for a year. Communication intransparent.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa...
I am not even against crypto integration, but I found the choice of MobileCoin odd. Instead of integrating an existing privacy coin or working with the community, he decided to integrate MOB and to be one of their "advisors":
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/mobilecoin-moxie-marlinspi...
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mobilecoin
-
Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
Is that so surprising? Signal had always a hostile attitude to alternative clients. They have this weird disconnect of the new CEO saying they want to be available to as many people as possible and be a fully commited FOSS app, and then have no version on F-Droid (while Telegram has!) and actively fight alternative clients (see https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...)
Because of this hostility Signal is not a trustworthy organization at all.
-
Signal discontinuing SMS support.
LibreSignal existed before Moxie was like “no, don’t”: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
- Combattez la censure Iranienne en hébergeant un proxy Signal
-
Nokia 1680 phone gets new PCB, runs mainline Linux
They have shut down third party clients, and resve the roght to continue that.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
-
Office 365 implementing AI to detect employees colluding, leaving and more
1) You need to audit that code, which.. everyone will have to do.
2) https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
> the Signal Android codebase includes some native shared libraries that we employ for voice calls (WebRTC, etc). At the time this native code was added, there was no Gradle NDK support yet, so the shared libraries aren’t compiled with the project build.
a good answer in my opinion, but it means what you run from the play store is not reproducible and thus can never really be confirmed to be what the sources actually include. There are also binary blobs needed for interacting with Google Play.
3) Signal is openly hostile to third party client implementations: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
-
Axolotl: First cross-plattform Signal client
Moxie Marlinspike on May 5th 2016:
> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.
> If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you're right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.
Moxie Marlinspike left Signal this January[2] 2022.
Whose to say whether there will be any change, but it's been interesting seeing Signal as a somewhat defended property. Although various third party clients/tools/libraries do exist already.
The claim that running servers is expensive would have been more interesting, imo, had there been any viable way to run your own. But for a long while Signal server source code wasn't being updated at all.
[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
[2] https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/
pypush
- Beeper Mini Is Back
-
Does anyone know where the source code for Beeper Cloud's iMessage bridge is?
It’s written in Go and hasn’t been opened yet but it’s heavily based around this project: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
-
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android | TechCrunch
neither this nor search is very much a hard problem as it’s been solved many times over already. The harder part is that beeper never reverse engineered anything, they bought the POC from a high school kid that did it as a project: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush meaning they never had the ability to do it in the first place
-
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
This should have been obvious to anyone who saw the code where it simply contained the raw literal string `FAIRPLAY_PRIVATE_KEY = b64decode(“…”)`. I suppose now we’ll see how accurate the commenter’s claim “if this becomes a problem, I know how to generate new keys” is.
https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/main/albert.py#L16
-
The discord
I had copied it from JJ’s official GitHub website https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
- Beeper got a C&D according to an insider
- Apple to Android after 10+ years
-
Beeper Mini is an interesting alternative to AirMessage
Beeper open-sourced their reverse engineering effort, which means that there will now be a significant ongoing community effort to maintain the solution. It would be very difficult to stop the Beeper solution from working without also breaking iMessage clients running on older versions of MacOS or iOS. Apple may be able to keep new iMessage features locked up, but it would probably only be a matter of time before the community manages to reverse engineer those features, as well.
-
Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
Here's the code that Beeper bought for this: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
-
Thoughts on Beeper Mini being insecure?
He also has to fake being an apple device using real device identifiers. https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/main/emulated/data.plist
What are some alternatives?
mollyim-android - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
self-host - Learn how to self-host Beeper
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
py-imei-generator - A single python module to generate random IMEI numbers with specification of the first 8-12 digits
signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.
pypush - Cross-platform iMessage POC [Moved to: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush]
calyxos-fdroid-repo
albertsimlockapple - First World Albert Simlock Bug Release 2023
Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.
nacserver