Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 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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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

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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Oh wow that’s quite a red flag ngl

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