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Molly - a hardened version of the official Signal for Android app (github.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Molly is a hardened version of the official Signal for Android app. It claims the following features,

Protects database with passphrase encryption
Locks down the app automatically after you go a certain time without unlocking your device
Securely shreds sensitive data from RAM
Allows you to delete contacts and stop sharing your profile
Clears call notifications together with expiring messages
Disables debug logs
No SMS integration

There are two flavors of it,

Molly - Similar to the official Signal app, plus the additional features
Molly-FOSS - Doesn't rely on any Google components for location, push notifications & face blurring, plus all the additional features

Download it from here.

I've been using it for a couple of days & it is pretty decent so far.

Anyone here already tried or are using it? How's the experience so far?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (3 children)

What's the difference between Molly and LibreSignal, for Signal as a company? Shouldn't Moxie ask them to stop using their infrastructure like they did with LibreSignal? Maybe Signal is not aware of its existence?

Anyway, looks promising. A really nice fork

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I'm also interested on understanding if Moxie and company would eventually request molly to cease connecting to signal servers. Same thing as with signal-gcm-less. I don't understand why they can still connect to signal servers, since Moxie clearly wants no other clients, than the binaries provided by signal connecting. I don't know if this would last only until Moxie or signal guys realize, or only while these clients don't reach certain popularity... Who knows... Moxie's decisions make signal look like not open source, but who knows, maybe those 2 clients, molly and signal-gcm-less got some approval from signal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

If i recall correctly, Moxie was primarily frustrated by libre-signal because it was using signal name. He was also frustrated with custom clients, but he should see this as an improvement if he was being genuine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I had the same query as well. I don't know if it has any direct relation to LibreSignal, since it was abandoned sometime back. But, both aims to remove dependency on Google components.

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android#disclaimer

This project is NOT sponsored by Signal Messenger LLC or Signal Foundation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago

As someone who has been using Signal, and previously TextSecure for almost 10 years, Moxie’s attitude is abhorrent and counter-intuitive. I wasn’t aware of how bad Signal’s privacy model was as it was worlds better than any other option back in 2015(in terms of security, not functionality) and I have not heard cries for an alternative until recently. I just downloaded Session and will promote it moving forward. Does anyone know an alternative to Signal for encrypted local storage of traditional SMS messages?