Originally I’ve download the signal app through playstore, but often it also get updates from Droid-ify(Fdroid client). Today its weird and I got this . Explain to me this.

On the Droid-ify the signal app is provided by: org.thoughtcrimes.securesms

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The package name is correct, but signal was never on F-droid.

Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?

Edit: Package name isn’t correct, so that’s almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.

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To add to that:

Always check the projects’ website to see the official ways it’s distributed, before you just download it from anywhere.

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Not applying for signal though, as their apk site is hidden away

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Not a fan of that either, that really is unfortunate. But with a bit of common sense, a person should then ask about that, if the Play Store is not an option. It’s still not a reason to download it from a source you haven’t verified to be official

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org.thoughtcrimes.securesms

It actually might not be, googling "org.thoughtcrimes.securesms" doesn’t get results.

thoughtcrimes vs. thoughtcrime


My question though is how this popped up in droidify, would someone need to manually add some special repo?

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I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

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how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

by that popup blocking him from installing the wrong one?

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Yes, where is that from? Its not in the repos I use.

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Twinhelix is the only one compiling the app from source without proprietary blobs

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