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Yes, it is cumbersome but the beauty of it that not everyone needs to do this. Just one person checking it is enough. If they release another build than they say and only a single person checks and finds out, it will come out.
Only if everyone trusts that one person who checks, which they won't if they already don't trust Apple. It's important to make the verifiable build process accessible.
 
Note that the "Citizen" app is not backed by an official health authority and does not use Apple's privacy-preserving API. As far as I understand it uploads the tracing data to a central server, meaning that they can have access to it and potentially misuse it, whereas with Apple's API this would be prevented by design.

yeah understood
they seem to be claiming on their website:
citizen app safetrace website
that the information will not be misused and never sold to any other companies and always encrypted
and besides they also got meg griffin to do the voice over on their pitch video....
so it cant be all that bad or evil right??
 
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yeah understood
they seem to be claiming on their website:
citizen app safetrace website
that the information will not be misused and never sold to any other companies and always encrypted
and besides they also got meg griffin to the voice over on their pitch video....
so it cant be all that bad or evil right??
I don't know their offers nor their reputation so I won't comment on whether they are trustworthy or not. IMHO what's important is to know that they don't use Apple's API for COVID-19 tracing and implement their own solution: if one wants to trust them it's a perfectly fine choice as long as it's based on correct information.
 
I don't know their offers nor their reputation so I won't comment on whether they are trustworthy or not. IMHO what's important is to know that they don't use Apple's API for COVID-19 tracing and implement their own solution: if one wants to trust them it's a perfectly fine choice as long as it's based on correct information.

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