Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising
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People being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be "shitty", even if it works perfectly fine.
17 2 ReplyI can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application "good" if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
3 0 ReplyAlso there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
2 0 ReplyWhich ones, for example?
2 0 ReplySomething like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).
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