[jerheinze]

> The Signal app can be used as a honeypot to plant a pseudo-secure messenger

Given its open source nature that would be exceedingly difficult.

> The Tor network was deemed the culprit of anonymity and secure connections not long ago. We all know how it went.

What are you talking about? Tor is still the uncontested king of low-latency anonymity networks.

[arccy]

is it really open source when you have to use the binary builds from signal through the app stores? it could be like the xz attack: clean source, bad binaries.

[jerheinze]

This has been a solved problem since 2016: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/