Molly is a hardened version of the official Signal for Android app. It claims the following features,
- Protects database with passphrase encryption
- Locks down the app automatically after you go a certain time without unlocking your device
- Securely shreds sensitive data from RAM
- Allows you to delete contacts and stop sharing your profile
- Clears call notifications together with expiring messages
- Disables debug logs
- No SMS integration
There are two flavors of it,
- Molly - Similar to the official Signal app, plus the additional features
- Molly-FOSS - Doesn’t rely on any Google components for location, push notifications & face blurring, plus all the additional features
Download it from here.
I’ve been using it for a couple of days & it is pretty decent so far.
Anyone here already tried or are using it? How’s the experience so far?
I’m also interested on understanding if Moxie and company would eventually request molly to cease connecting to signal servers. Same thing as with signal-gcm-less. I don’t understand why they can still connect to signal servers, since Moxie clearly wants no other clients, than the binaries provided by signal connecting. I don’t know if this would last only until Moxie or signal guys realize, or only while these clients don’t reach certain popularity… Who knows… Moxie’s decisions make signal look like not open source, but who knows, maybe those 2 clients, molly and signal-gcm-less got some approval from signal?
If i recall correctly, Moxie was primarily frustrated by libre-signal because it was using signal name. He was also frustrated with custom clients, but he should see this as an improvement if he was being genuine.