My signal app the other day had 2 seperate, a few days apart, updates from the app itself. Asking for install from unknown sources to check in the settings to be checked. Doing this outside of both stores which usually update the app from F droid or Aurora.
Seems odd that the signal app itself asked to update itself from a notification from the drop down menu. How can I make sure it has not been compromised? Anyone else experienced something of the sort?
I have one device where I installed the APK straight from Signal themselves. That is the only device where it has updated itself.
My other devices all use the Play version through Aurora Store, and always updates through that.
Maybe there’s a config/setting somewhere?
But also, maybe don’t use F-Droid for apps regarding privacy.
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
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A blatant scam to backdoor our devices with software which fails to include a libre software license text file, software we do not control, anti-libre software.
This article seems like a lot of FUD written from an anti-FOSS perspective. In their second point, they say that F-droid’s inclusion policy is “ridiculous” for requiring programs exclude proprietary software. I think the author is ridiculous for asking for this. This is what F-droid is for. I don’t want any proprietary apps or libraries on my phone. If developers only want to work on their proprietary software, they don’t get into F-droid. If they make a modified FOSS version and put it in F-droid, and let it bitrot and go unpatched when vulnerabilities are discovered, and F-droid issues a security advisory for that program, that’s not F-droid’s fault.
I think about F droid and this aspect from time to time.