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by sneak 1979 days ago
No, you can't verify the checksum; it downloads and runs new code without asking.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578

1 comments

Wow... I was totally convinced by the security argument until I read through this thread, which completely obsoletes that premise. It's no different from a PWA (like WhatsApp) in its update behavior then.