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         </p>
 
         <p>
-          Today's release is the first major release that
-          <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2018/building-briar-reproducible-and-why-it-matters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">builds reproducible</a>.
-          The Briar project encourages people to independently verify
-          that the public Briar source code matches its official releases.
-          It also published <a href="https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-reproducer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tools</a>
+          Today's release is the first major release to use a
+          <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2018/building-briar-reproducible-and-why-it-matters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reproducible build process</a>,
+          which means it's possible to prove that the release was built from
+          the published source code, with no backdoors or other hidden changes.
+          The Briar Project encourages people to verify this independently,
+          and has published <a href="https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-reproducer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tools</a>
           to make the verification as easy as possible.
         </p>