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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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 · 7 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 trust my mobile - they’re much harder to make private and “yours” than a desktop.

Still mobile phones are designed with much more security in mind than desktop environments, and basically everybody has a device.

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