The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Compiling the app is irrelevant if I don’t read the source.
That’s nonsense, because many different people read the source and audit open source software. While it’s certainly possible to sneak malicious code in, the trust doesn’t depend on each single individual auditing it. It’s a collective effort.
okay, but reproducible builds solve the rest of that problem
https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Yeah, now that they finally have reproducible builds, at least you can trust that the client is doing what it says it’s doing.