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by lone-commenter 2309 days ago
This won't improve the security, right? Both apps use the same crypto for communication; while regarding the quality of infrastructure and client's code, they are at best comparable.

The only point against WhatsApp (and a good one) is it's owned by Facebook, and thus so-called metadata belong to them.

But one may be happy to see people moving away from Facebook.

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The Signal client has reproducible builds:

* https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr...

... and available source code. The Whatsapp client does not.

Weirdly enough though, Signal does not allow distribution of the client on F-Droid...