Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising
  • @Tramort@programming.devEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    Agreed

    But you can’t have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.

    • @claudiop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•9 months ago

      You can’t encrypt anything without a key. This is the key. If it wasn’t in plaintext then it would be encrypted. Then you’d need a key for that. Where do you put it?

      Phone OSs have mechanisms to solve this. Desktop ones do not.