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I thought the only client allowed on Signal was the official build provided by Signal itself? Does this mean Signal does officially allow another build (Telema

• captn3m0 1y ago
  From what I know, Signal tries to block known bad clients. But guaranteeing such blocks is impossibly hard short of forcing attestations via things like SafetyNet that would legitimately impact users as well. There was a case where a teenager in India rose to news media popularity by publishing a messaging app, which was a simple rebranding of Signal he made using some other tool which patches assets iirc. It was blocked by Signal, but only after reports surfacing about it being an insecure rebrand.
  • tomhowls 1y ago
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• IshKebab 1y ago
  That's correct, but presumably this is unpopular enough to fly under the radar (until now at least).
• Aachen 1y ago
  China's WeChat certainly wouldn't like this yet there's a modified build of that as well, according to the article. I don't think they asked Signal Foundation for permission, they just did it. Just because you're an Israeli government contractor doesn't mean you can't get rich from piracy and modding so long as you find gullible buyers Also, how would Signal know this isn't the official app that's accessing their network? They do have a standing policy against it but if someone copy-pastes the APK and makes modifications in parts that don't talk to your server, how's your server to know that an illegitimate client is talking to it
• nelblu 1y ago
  That is not true. There is a popular mod of Signal called Molly - https://molly.im/ https://molly.im/. It allows multi-device access, which I find very useful. I have been using this on Signal network for a long time now.