&gt; At issue further up the thread was whether insisting on using Google Play to distribute Signal for security reasons was sound logic, right?<p>No. The assertion was that Moxie <i>only</i> wished to distributed on the Google Play store. I addressed this complaint. From my first comment in this sub-thread:<p>&gt;&gt; He only wants distribution via Google...<p>&gt; Untrue. He only wants distribution through channels that provide the same security assurances and deployment features that Google does through the Play Store. [0][1][2]<p>You then went off on a tear about how the Play Store doesn&#x27;t provide &quot;guaranteed security&quot;, with the strong _<i>implication</i>_ that this fact means that distribution through either the Play Store or the App Store is no better than distributing through a Market that performed <i>no</i> malware scanning, stripped the developer-provided signature from the software they distributed, signed <i>all</i> software distributed in the Market with the <i>same</i> signing key, and (because their code signing system was automated, rather than manually run) <i>kept that signing key online and on an Internet-accessible computer</i>, rather than in <i>cold storage</i> that gets <i>occasionally</i> attached to an <i>airgapped</i> computer.<p>The difference in procedures is <i>crucial</i>.<p>&gt; I have to say it isn&#x27;t helping to persuade me...<p>Your rhetorical style strongly indicates that you&#x27;re more interested in verbal sparring than transfer of information. Maybe some months or years down the road you&#x27;ll go back, revisit conversations like this one, and grow to understand something new about computer security.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127#issuecomment-13335689" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127#...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;281#issuecomment-21762482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;281#...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127#issuecomment-13339504" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127#...</a>