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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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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.
That’s what I was thinking, my private keys are also chilling in plaintext on my filesystem.