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It would have to be approved; there is no way for lay-users to install/configure TM-SGNL in their own; it needs to be deployed via MDM.

Source: I'm the admin who installs TM-SGNL for many users.

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Would be interesting to dump the app binaries so people can take a look at how its put together, I suspect its a minefield of sloppy injection functions into how signal works.

Signal is open source for the client, no one is doing work they don't have to cracking a binary you can just compile.

FYI, the server is also open source.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

I was looking for the modified client to look into, not the main line signal binary

> Source: I'm the admin who installs TM-SGNL for many users.

So... is it properly open source?

I felt the writer implied open source code was a bad/insecure thing, since they downloaded a zip file from some WordPress upload folder. I'm guessing the code was being made available to companies that "legally" obtained TM-SGNL.

His repo, not theirs: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-Android/commits/master/

He points out that "You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy."

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