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Iirc Signal is open source, so anyone can simply insert a backdoor into the source code and compile it, and then distribute the modified binary.

However, I'm talking about applications for who the source code is not available. If you properly use integrity checks, signature verification, and obfuscation, you can make repackaging and piracy of applications significantly more difficult. With LLVM bitcode this is no longer the case.




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