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[-] Zak@lemmy.world 175 points 4 months ago

Signal should change this, but it's typical of the traditional desktop OS security model in which applications running under the user's account are considered trustworthy. Security-oriented software like Signal should take a more hardened approach, but this is not some glaring security hole.

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 59 points 4 months ago

That’s what I was thinking, my private keys are also chilling in plaintext on my filesystem.

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