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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As mentioned in the comments, plain text keys aren't bad because they are necessary. You have to have at least one plain text key in order to be able to use encryption

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

It isn’t, because their business practices violate the four FOSS essential freedoms:

The freedom to run the program for any purpose

The freedom to study and modify the program

The freedom to redistribute copies of the original or modified program

The freedom to distribute modified versions of the program

Specifically, freedom 4 is violated, because you are not permitted to distribute a modified version of the program that connects to the Signal servers (even if all your modified version does is to remove Google Play Services or something similar).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Molly.im

The license does not prevent number four from happening, they just ask people not to do it