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I thought the Telegram client is open-source, it's even on F-droid. The server side being open or closed source is meaningless: 1. In Telegram's threat model t
by leni536 11y ago
I thought the Telegram client is open-source, it's even on F-droid. The server side being open or closed source is meaningless:
1. In Telegram's threat model the servers are not trusted.
2. You can't verify server side code anyway.
- toupeira 11y agoThe Telegram client can just barely be considered Open Source, see the discussion at https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76 https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76
- leni536 11y agoF-droid builds those parts separately from source. > The official source code of the app contains binary blobs, so this tracks a fork which builds those from source. Hence, versions might become available with a certain lag. https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.telegram.messenger https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.telegram.mes...