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The most prominent red flag about Signal is that, for all its purported commitment to "developing open source privacy technology", a real, working open-source a

The most prominent red flag about Signal is that, for all its purported commitment to "developing open source privacy technology", a real, working open-source app is not on F-Droid. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/we-can-include-signal-in-f-droid/7373 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/we-can-include-signal-in-f-droid...

woodruffw 5y ago
I don't think availability via any particular distribution mechanism is a reasonable litmus test for "open sourcedness." Such a test would have excluded Linux for most of its development history, prior to migration to git.
- danuker 5y ago
  This particular distribution (F-Droid) requires that the source be build-able from strictly source files, without bundling binaries.
mos_6502 5y ago
You can download the APK directly from Signal: https://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/ When a new version is released, the Signal app notifies you.
- danuker 5y ago
  Problem is, the APK is a closed-source binary. What they include there might be completely different from what is in the source.
  - hiq 5y ago
    Not with reproducible builds, no.
m-p-3 5y ago
One more point in favor of Matrix/Element.