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Why I Trust Signal: My Go-To for Secure Messaging - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Kalcifer 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t buy the point about metadata when Signal […] may be able to scrape it […]

I agree that it it within the realm of possibility, but, imo, this is independently verifiable, as the Signal apps are open-source ^[1][2][3]^ and offer reproducible builds (except iOS ^[2.1]^) ^[1.1][3.1]^. See this section on Signal's metadata for some more concrete information ^[4]^.

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  1. "signalapp/Signal-Android". Github. Published: 2024-12-06T21:08:08.000Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T05:38Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android.
    1. Filepath: "reproducible-builds". Published: 2024-10-29T18:36:34.000Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T05:40Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reproducible-builds.
  2. "signalapp/Signal-iOS". Github. Published: 2024-12-04T21:19:41.000Z. Accessed; 2024-12-11T05:41Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS.
    1. "Reproducible builds" (#641). Author: "Jeroen Massar" (massar). Issues. Published: 2015-03-03T09:16:05Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T06:11Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641.
  3. "signalapp/Signal-Desktop". Github. Published: 2024-12-04T22:57:07.000Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T06:12Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop.
    1. Filepath: "reproducible-builds". Published: 2024-11-21T03:14:21.000Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T06:15Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/main/reproducible-builds.
  4. "Signal Protocol". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-11-30T04:32. Accessed: 2024-12-11T06:18Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol#Metadata.
    • §"Properties". §"Metadata".