• Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.

  • Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)

  • The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.

I saw what WhatsApp did to forbid modification of it’s app which works in stopping a lot of distributions, why doesn’t Signal do the same?

    • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      19 days ago

      I could appreciate a client certification that is optional, like a list of approved clients on their website or something along those lines.

      It should not be enforced by killing the client. I like security, but I enjoy software freedom more.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      19 days ago

      As I said, a compromise here would be to have a client security certification program, where no other clients outside it would be able to use Signal.

      You mean running a trojan “as a mean of security”, similar to anticheats? Are you sure this is a good idea?

      Or if by “program” you mean having some allowed clients as opposite to only the official one allowed, it’s a social thing, not a technical one. So it still won’t prevent anyone from connecting with another client.