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Today, we’re happy to announce our plan to open source some of the Whisper Systems software on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120110144946/https://github.com/whispersystems">Github</a>.</p> <p>If you follow what’s going on at Twitter, you hopefully know we are heavy <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120110144946/https://dev.twitter.com/opensource">consumers and producers of open source</a> technology (@TwitterOSS); we love the stuff! That said, we also believe that open source is not something to do on a whim.</p> <p>Before we fully release Whisper Systems’ code to the public in the coming months, we need to make sure it meets legal requirements and is consumable by the open source community. The plan is to open source the code in an iterative fashion, starting today with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120110144946/https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure">TextSecure</a>, which provides support for encrypted texts on Android devices. 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