On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
Something at which even the original Signal fails. It has received criticism multiple times (1, 2) for not being verifiable whether it’s been tampered with by the app’s distributor, and also for having included properietary google services dependencies which dynamically load further code from the phone which is also a security issue. Worthy forks solve both of these.
That’s unfortunate. I do hope that these forks don’t go and start making extensive changes though, because that’s where it becomes a problem.
That’s unfortunate. I do hope that these forks don’t go and start making extensive changes though, because that’s where it becomes a problem.