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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app

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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising

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I don’t know why they didn’t just make it a web application. It’s the same damn thing. Just like there’s web.whatsapp.com, make Signal the same way. At least that way I get to use my own browser and in a single instance.

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