Finally, since the client is a binary distributed by Whisper, it’s not possible to verify that the client and server use the published protocol independently.
What are you talking about? The official client is open source and has reproducible builds.
What are you talking about? The official client is open source and has reproducible builds.
Yeah, others corrected me. My understanding was that you had to use the client from the app store to talk to the official server.
This is FUD that some people keep on spreading. You can build your own client https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
There’s even these 3rd party clients that have existed for some time now and haven’t been blocked: