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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] refalo 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

98% of desktop apps (at least on Windows and Linux) are already broken by design anyways. Any one app can spy on and keylog all other apps, all your home folder data, everything. And anyone can write a desktop app, so only using solutions that (currently) don't have a desktop app version, seems silly to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linux has a sandbox solution growing in popularity, flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And Wayland. Xorg is a complete and utter mess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think apps can read keystrokes for other apps on Wayland.

[–] refalo 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wayland doesn't magically make other kinds of keyloggers stop working altogether though.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/23mj49/wayland_is_not_immune_to_keyloggers/

https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger

https://github.com/schauveau/sway-keylogger

https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/11h5tvl/wayland_security_keyloggers_are_back/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unless you have root

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you have root you could just update the kernel to one that lets you do whatever you want on the system, so there’s no way to stop the attacker from viewing the passwords if the app is capable of displaying them.