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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

While it would certainly be nice to see this addressed, I don't recall Signal ever claiming their desktop app provided encryption at rest. I would also think that anyone worried about that level of privacy would be using disappearing messages and/or regularly wiping their history.

That said, this is just one of the many reasons why whole disk encryption should be the default for all mainstream operating systems today, and why per-app permissions and storage are increasingly important too.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I don’t recall Signal ever claiming their desktop app provided encryption at rest.

I'm not sure if they've claimed that, but it does that using SQLCipher.

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