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		kuschku on Feb 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signal Foundation The funny part is that Signal and F-Droid both have their own reproducible build system, but they’re incompatible (part of that is that Signal requires proprietary code in its binary)

kbart on Feb 22, 2018 [–]

Can you elaborate more on this? What is the proprietary code used by Signal?

kuschku on Feb 22, 2018 | [–]

They link several proprietary libraries into their APK, including GCM (which has its own internal analytics package)

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