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

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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