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| TextSecure | Signal-Android | |
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| 985 | 46 | |
| 24,843 | 235 | |
| 0.6% | - | |
| 9.9 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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TextSecure
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The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store, and as a result fewer eyes independently building and testing the Signal code base. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but independent and reproducible builds seem like a net positive for everyone. Always struggled to understand releasing code as open source without taking advantage of the community's willingness to build and test. Looking at it in a new light after the XZ backdoor, and Jia Tan's interactions with other FOSS folk.
- WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
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Signal: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7409
> We've discussed at length why this is not possible, but if you have more thoughts then please visit the forums. Please try not to open duplicate issues in the future, even if you feel like something is important.
I wonder why this is "not possible"
Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
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Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
There's nothing on Signal blog as of yet, but Signal's git repository was tagged with v7.0.0 yesterday and we can see from the commit history since the previously tagged version (v6.74.4) that there will be a setting to hide one's phone number [1], as well as disabling the previous default behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all their contacts already using it [2].
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy")
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6097e6c30...
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What are you shocked people are still doing nowadays?
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp.
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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
Telegram and Signal solve this.
- Are Signal Notifications Encrypted ?
- Police used Cellebrite to break into my phone, how do I prevent this in the future?
Signal-Android
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Which version of Signal introduced SMS nags?
How do you know its keeping SMS? And what about this one? https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
The fork by johanw666 is most likely not going to keep SMS support, see here and here.
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Re-Adding SMS Support to Signal
I couldn't agree more, and I love to see this kind of a response to their change in focus.
Here's another fork doing something similar: https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases
there is already Singal fork with no APK expire whrere you can keep using SMS as long as you want
You could save yourself work and just link Johann's fork with no APK expire
https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
Personally I just uninstalled the fork yesterday and just switched to default Lineage messaging app to receive SMS messages (and rarely write some) and for the rest I'm using Whatsapp, since only like 4 of my contacts were on Signal anyway (and I talk rarely only with 1 of them).
But I'm always looking for E2E messaging app with SMS support as backup option for Whatsapp (and pls no Facebook/Google/Microsoft product, I'm aware they all have something like that).
- Are there any end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that also support SMS?
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Signal Introduces Story Time
Just use Johann's fork with SMS support and no APK expiration and don't update it. This would either buy you some months before proper alternative will be introduced or at best work infinitely.
- Signal discontinuing SMS support.
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Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
It was this one : https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
What are some alternatives?
undiscord - Undiscord - Delete all messages in a Discord server / channel or DM (Easy and fast) Bulk delete
Signal-TLS-Proxy
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps đŸ“±!
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
MaterialAudiobookPlayer - Minimalistic audiobook player
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".
TelegramAndroid - Fork client of Telegram app for Android.
LibreSignal - LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal