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  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

    Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

      Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.

      Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways?

      Probably Russians who used Signal before.

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.

          F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version.

        • Nonononoki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          It’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it.