Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext (stackdiary.com)

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[-] douglasg14b@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Not necessarily. There are many paths to exfiltrated data that don't require privileged access, and can be exploited through vulnerabilities in other applications.

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