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bigfishrunningtoday at 1:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, it seems kind of funny how Signal is marketed as a somewhat paranoid solution, but most people run it on an iPhone out of the app store with no way to verify the source. All it takes is one villain to infiltrate one of a few offices and Signal falls apart.

Same goes for Whatsapp, but the marketing is different there.


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maqptoday at 2:09 PM

Ok so which iPhone app can be verified from source?

Or is your problem that your peer might run the app on an insecure device? How would you exclude decade old Android devices with unpatched holes? I don't want to argue nirvana fallacy here but what is the solution you'd like to propose?

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