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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was just nodding along, reading your post thinking, yup, agreed. Until I saw there was a PR to fix it that signal ignored, that seems odd and there must be some mitigating circumstances on why they haven't merged it.

Otherwise that's just inexcusable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The PR had some issues regarding files that were pushed that shouldn't have been, adding refactors that should have been in separate PRs, etc...

Though the main reason is that Signal doesn't consider this issue a part of their threat model.