Signal Messenger is now available on Guardian F-Droid repo

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Are these types of repos trust worthy, or is it best to download straight from Signal’s site?

Similarly, I noticed Signal is on Flathub [1] for installing via Flatpak, but the developer account is ‘unverified’. It’s always put me off installing via this method.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/org.signal.Signal

> Similarly, I noticed Signal is on Flathub for installing via Flatpak, but the developer account is ‘unverified’. It’s always put me off installing via this method.

It's unverified because it's not explicitly authorized by the Signal developers, Flathub's build files for signal are here: https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal

Sorry, I'm not real comfortable with this ... nor with Signal in general.

Signal claims to be all about privacy but the app requests access to just about every piece of private info on your phone.

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