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ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 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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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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    I don’t do temporary conversations, but this is the open issue on the flatpak https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454. The thing is, I’m having the same issue as the flatpak even though I’m not using the flatpak.

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      That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn’t happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?

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        Nope, I’m on KDE.

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          I wonder if it’s only happening on KDE? Either way, I’m sure it needs to be corrected.

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