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Observed on the operator's machine 2026-10-30 while reinstalling to put the app to use. Four months after the package was purged, a fresh install found ~/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite (54,214,656 bytes, mtime 2026-06-21), tried to open it, and aborted before the linking screen: MainSQL: sqlite(SQLITE_NOTADB): file is not a database in PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL MainSQL: migrateDatabase: Migration without cipher change failed sql.initialize was unsuccessful; returning early The SQLCipher key in config.json no longer resolved. The UI named nothing and offered only 'Delete data and restart', which discards the history. Moving the config directory aside fixes it; nothing in the product says so. Recorded as a medium finding, status open. The score does not move: 76.4 / B. local_data_exposure was already 5 for exactly this behaviour, and a finding is evidence, not a point. What changes is that the number now has a receipt instead of a rationale. Artifact: Servetus/00-Artifacts/2026/10-Oct/30/clu-signal-startup-failure/ main.log.excerpt - the failing run, verbatim 00-provenance.txt - package version, file sizes, sha256 of the retained db Retained state moved to ~/Signal-backup-2026-10-30-0026, not deleted.
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<h1>The rating badge</h1>
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<p class="sub">Put it in your footer. It is not a sticker, and that is the point.</p>
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<p class="lede">If you have been rated by us, you may display the badge. It is served from our
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domain and regenerated from the database, so it is not a picture you copy. It is a live reference
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to a record you do not control.</p>
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<h2>How it works</h2>
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<tr><th>The badge is</th><th>Which means</th></tr>
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<tr><td>Served from <code>bigtech.sucks</code></td><td>A copy pasted onto your own server is not a badge and its link will not resolve.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Generated from the record</td><td>The score and date are not typed by anyone. They come out of the database.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Regenerated every build</td><td>Improve and your badge improves without asking. Regress and it regresses without warning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Linked to the report</td><td>Anyone who clicks it lands on your evidence trail, not a marketing page.</td></tr>
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<h2>The rules, published plainly</h2>
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<p class="note">Only a rated product may display a badge. There is no badge for an unrated product,
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and we will not issue one as a favour. If a badge is used on a product that is not rated, or is
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altered to show a score we did not publish, we will say so publicly.</p>
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<p class="note">A badge is free. It always will be. It is marketing for you and it is receipts
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for your customer, and charging for it would make it worthless to both.</p>
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<div style="font-size:.9rem">Signal Desktop · <strong>76.4</strong> · grade B</div>
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<div class="tier">assessed 2026-10-29 · weakest: local_data_exposure</div>
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<pre style="margin:1rem 0 0"><a href="https://bigtech.sucks/report/signal-desktop.html">
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alt="Signal Desktop: bigtech.sucks rating 76.4/100">
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<h2>Why you would want this</h2>
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<p class="note">Because every competitor who cannot show one is leaving a question on the table.
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A privacy claim in your own copy is a claim. A badge that links to a re-runnable audit is evidence,
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and it costs you nothing but the honesty of being measured.</p>
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Method btr-0.1. Every number recomputes from its evidence or the build fails.
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