LibreSignal
Signal-Android
LibreSignal | Signal-Android | |
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49 | 46 | |
258 | 241 | |
0.8% | - | |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
about 7 years ago | 5 days ago | |
C | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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LibreSignal
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
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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
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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/
Signal-Android
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Which version of Signal introduced SMS nags?
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
there is already Singal fork with no APK expire whrere you can keep using SMS as long as you want
https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
- SMS and MMS features leaving
- 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.
https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases
- Signal discontinuing SMS support.
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Google Messages and RCS with microG
Just use Signal fork with SMS feature and don't update it, this fork should keep working even if Signal tries to force you to update.
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If I disables updates, the old android APK will still have SMS integration, correct?
I've been looking into this fork and hopefully the dev ends up keeping SMS : https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
- Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
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Hackers install Dracarys Android malware using modified Signal app
Signal Fork by Johanw666 is it safe right? I've been using it for long time
What are some alternatives?
mollyim-android - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
Signal-Setup-Guide - Signal Server Setup Guide
signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.
calyxos-fdroid-repo
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".
signalbackup-tools - Tool to work with Signal Backup files.