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@signalapp "Capitalists preferring profit over ethics" - surprise surprise

Fell for it again award

@clot27 @signalapp Releasing on the Microsoft Store is important for Windows users who can't otherwise install programs on their computers due to various restrictions (not admin, Windows S mode, etc).
@tedstechtips @signalapp why isnt signal on fdroid again?

@clot27 @signalapp I don't believe they've made an official statement about F-Droid availability, but generally F-Droid is considered to not be very secure.

See: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/obtaining-apps/#f-droid

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The anti-f-droid take is uninformed

It’s not true that it just relies on badness enumeration. The list of external sources that you can pull from during build for example, is white listed… fdroidserver/scanner.py · master · F-Droid / fdroidserver · GitLab There are checks for example that ensure you’re not stuffing Zip files with improper extensions into your APK, fdroidserver/scanner.py · master · F-Droid / fdroidserver · GitLab The extensions that are acceptable for the zip mimetype, are whitelisted: .zip. No one is arguing t...

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the advise still stands, use f-droid as a last resort or rely less on the official f-droid repo, it is bad that every app on the official f-droid repo is signed by the f-droid keys that one compromise can cause chaos.

@gorujocy, https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/blob/874c7089988cc3d59806f8d0acb3a12d431a2c12/_posts/2023-09-03-reproducible-builds-signing-keys-and-binary-repos.md#:~:text=changes%2E%20Learn%20more%2E-,2023%2D09%2D03%2Dreproducible%2Dbuilds%2Dsigning%2Dkeys%2Dand%2Dbinary%2Drepos%2Emd,-12%2E29%20KiB should dissuade you of that being a problem.

Both signing methods are utilised by those Linux-based OSes that support a native package manager alongside Flatpak, and I see few complain. That F-Droid provides both methods appears to be a novel improvement.

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