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dheera on Nov 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop f...

> no third party clients

Isn't their client open source? If I compiled it myself, is that a third party client?

If they don't let me compile it myself, how can I trust their official version is using the source they published?

alias_neo on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

You can build their client and use it yourself, but they don't want you to distribute it and they don't want you using their infra and API from a third party client.

maccam94 on Nov 4, 2022 | [–]

They don't want people distributing unofficial builds that claim to be Signal due to the risk of supply chain attacks against users.

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