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ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 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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ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago
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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
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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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    This shows an incredibly cavalier approach to security on the part of the team working on signal.

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      Moxie would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t still working there…

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        Moxie tried to put a crypto-coin into signal. He is not to be trusted in the slightest.

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          That’s quite a take given the source of most current end to end encrypted messaging algorithms.

          But also, whooosh

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