Readit Newsjerheinze commented on Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world politico.com/news/2025/04... · Posted by u/mdhb
is it really open source when you have to use the binary builds from signal through the app stores?
it could be like the xz attack: clean source, bad binaries.
This has been a solved problem since 2016: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Even more sinister is the false hope bias. The Signal app can be used as a honeypot to plant a pseudo-secure messenger, a sophisticated device around a backdoor, or even a trojan-like capability.
The Tor network was deemed the culprit of anonymity and secure connections not long ago. We all know how it went.
> The Signal app can be used as a honeypot to plant a pseudo-secure messenger
Given its open source nature that would be exceedingly difficult.
> The Tor network was deemed the culprit of anonymity and secure connections not long ago. We all know how it went.
What are you talking about? Tor is still the uncontested king of low-latency anonymity networks.