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Signal on Linux (lemmy.today)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How is it possible, that Signal still only provides a .deb package and no .rpm, or even better AppImage or Flatpak? There is an unofficial Flatpak but is it secure?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Personally I don’t understand the large warnings on flatpaks built by others, by that logic you should get a warning sign each time you download from the Ubuntu community apt repository.

OSS is built out of love, and to me this warns guilty before proven innocent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Well I think you have to distinguish between a messenger and other programms, because a messenger has a lot of sensitive data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just because something is built out of love does not make it safe, and attestation is about safety. You wouldn't trust an un-attested surgical device, just because there's a really positive community around its design.

Signal is a life-or-death app for some people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What warnings?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The 'appstore' of some distributions, e.g. Linux Mint, displays a warning or hint for unofficial flatpaks. In Mint the display of unofficial flatpaks are toggled off by default and there is a warning or recommendation displayed against toggling on.