quick_snail comments on Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users

Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users (www.iphoneincanada.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/727265/signal-to-ottawa-we-ll-leave-canada-before-we-help-you-spy-on-users

Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail

[+] quick_snail@feddit.nl -9 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Or people could just install it from fdroid.

Oh wait, signal isn't FOSS so it isn't allowed on fdroid.

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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Molly is on fdroid I believe

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[–] Ash37970244@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Yep and Molly is even better :)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

Not the official repo...because they couldn't meet it's acceptance criteria. Which is a red flag

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[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I think it used to, but unfortunely Molly is not on Fdroid's repo. You can download it from the app, but you'd need to add Molly's repo

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android AGPL

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

Lol no.

Download the apk. It includes that AGPL and also non free blobs. Just because part of if is Foss does not make if foss

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Nothing to laugh at here in my view. It is FOSS. The reason it isn’t on there is sort of procedural. You could easily build signal from source, but signal prefers only their builds connect to their servers. They of course can’t enforce this but fdroid is happy to do so.

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[–] root@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

I get it from FDroid via the Guardian repo. No issues.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Security issues. guardian repo has no acceptances criteria. Closed source blobs? Allowed.

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[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

what about Molly, then?

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[+] quick_snail@feddit.nl -6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Molly is Foss, but it's not on fdroid for likely other sketchy reasons

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[–] eodur@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago

Its on Accrescent though

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[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

You can import the repo into F-Droid.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -1 points 4 months ago

...and make yourself less secure, sure

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[+] racoon@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Well unless they want to add verified APKs of all the apps I do use to their app store, their frowning is useless because every graphene user basically needs f-droid as it stands now.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -1 points 4 months ago

And we frown upon grapheneOS because of numerous human concerns

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