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

submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If any part of the data gets corrupted you lose the whole thing. Recovery tools can't work with partially corrupted encrypted data.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's a big deal with Signal data. You can log back into your account, you'd just lose your messages. idk how most people use Signal but I have disappearing messages on for everything anyway, and if a message is that important to you then back it up.