> This throws into question what (Signal) consider “open source”, they are clearly deploying non-public software. [1] Even if Signal did deploy the publicly av

> This throws into question what (Signal) consider “open source”, they are clearly deploying non-public software. [1] Even if Signal did deploy the publicly available code, there's no way they nor a user can prove it. We should never assume an open source version of anything is what's actually running on a server - edits could have been made to the code; in fact it could be entirely different software designed to appear similar. [1] Minor edits for brevity's sake