alt Hacker NewsSignal's rigid anti-fork stance allows it to stay compliant with its 9-figure government contract, which requires it to include a backdoor in final builds that are not reproducible from the official source code.
All these poor, starving users who can't have any freedom unless they compile their own builds don't even have proof that Signal _doesn't do that_. And the worst thing is they probably have no idea there are already free and verifiable alternatives like Delta Chat and SimpleX.
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This is a serious claim - do you have any proof you can offer that this is actually the case?
>Signal's rigid anti-fork stance allows it to stay compliant with its 9-figure government contract, which requires it to include a backdoor in final builds that are not reproducible from the official source code.
[citation needed]
The Android client has been reproducible for quite some time, instructions right in the repo.