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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app(stackdiary.com)

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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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A pull request was made in April 2023 to implement Electron’s safeStorage API to address this problem, but there has been no follow-up from Signal

I hate hearing shit like this. What are they thinking?

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MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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They are thinking “your computer, your problem”.

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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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They’re thinking “This doesn’t improve shareholder value, so we’re not going to put it on a sprint this quarter”, same as every other commercial piece of software does.

Also, this quarter becomes “ever” after about six months of it sitting in a backlog waiting.

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